Aaron Johnson Quotes
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
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Why aren't we talking about it in health classes in school? That's just as important as learning about physical health and nutrition. Why aren't we learning about our minds and our mental health and mental illnesses? I just think that it's something that very much needs to go hand in hand.
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I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
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In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
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Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
