Aaron Neville Quotes
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
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In the changing-room, I'm seen as one of the jokers. I like to have a laugh; there are quite a few of us. That what helps make a good atmosphere in the changing-rooms. You've got to have a few jokers but obviously serious when the time comes.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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You never know how much time you got.
