Aaron Lazar Quotes
I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
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I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.
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I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
