Austin Ainge Quotes
I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.
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When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.
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Everybody needs a chance to find love.
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I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.
