Aaron Neville Quotes
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.
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It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
