Aaron Stanford Quotes
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.
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My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
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I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
