William Aitken Quotes
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like 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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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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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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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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The champion makes his own luck.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.
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My advice is you've got to make sure you wear the clothes and not let the clothes wear you. It's quite simple in a way. Don't wear something you totally feel uncomfortable with, but take some chances. Play around a bit. I felt very uncomfortable in suits when I was younger, so what I just started doing was wearing suits when I was going to dinner. I used to overdress a little bit so I got used to wearing suits. Now wearing a suit is like wearing a track suit for me. So it's all good.
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As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
