Aaron John Boone Quotes
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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The day that you walk out in front of 30,000 people and don't get nervous is probably the day to give it up. It's inspiring to be a little terrified.
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The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go.
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Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
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Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!
