Aaron Johnson Quotes
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
Quotes to Explore
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
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I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!
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I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.
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I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
