Aaron Staton Quotes
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
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That'll be up to an audience when they start to feel that someone else should come in and do it. Personally, I'm hoping that's a long way off.
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Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
