Aaron Stanford Quotes
My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
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Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.
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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.
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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
