Aaron Neville Quotes
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I'm totally a geek.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
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“We must be courageous in speaking out on the issues that concern us: We must not bend under the weight of spurious arguments invoking culture or traditional values. No value worth the name supports the oppression and enslavement of women. The function of culture and tradition is to provide a framework for human well-being. If they are used against us, we will reject them, and move on. We will not allow ourselves to be silenced.”
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The fans that come and see us are of every age and every colour and are so diverse, but the one thing they share is that they are all really excited about our music.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
