Aaron Gillespie Quotes
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.
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I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'
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People have preposterous ideas about what those songs are about and what the music means. They start spouting all this shit that’s so far off the mark, it’s revolting. But if that’s how they derive pleasure, who am I to deprive them of it? Let ’em enjoy it. It’s there for their edification. But total comprehension is out of the question.
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If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.
