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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Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
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Health care is a moral and human right.
