Aaron David Gordon Quotes
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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History's a resource.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I'm very happy alone.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
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How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
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When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
