Aaron Allston Quotes
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
