Alex Aiono (Martin Alexander Aiono) Quotes
I just love working with people who consistently push the limits, who try to be different and expand the talent that they have.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.
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The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
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As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.
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I just love working with people who consistently push the limits, who try to be different and expand the talent that they have.
