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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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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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
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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.
