Aja Monet Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
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We obviously came pretty close to a win the last time we were at Charlotte. The tracks changed a little bit and they've ground down some more parts of it. We'll see what happens when we get there. We tested there a couple of weeks ago, and we had a decent test. Right now we're just trying to finish out as strong as we can and try to get a win. It's been a frustrating season for sure, but we go into each weekend with a positive attitude and this week will be no different.
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Health care is a moral and human right.
