Aleatha Romig Quotes
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.
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We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
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I don't know anyone who hasn't overcooked at least one turkey, myself included. It's easy to do.
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Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
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I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.
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We spend a lot of time training and retraining. It's heartbreaking because our education system has failed all of us. And again you go to China, even Mexico, Brazil the education systems are valued - ours are not in this country at K-12 level. It's amazing how that change has transpired in my lifetime.
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My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
