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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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
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You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
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When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy. Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction.
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Health care is a moral and human right.
