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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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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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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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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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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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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I don't know the difference between working and not working.
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I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.
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As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
