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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It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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We are not interested in a symbolic state, and statehood generally is not a concession from an occupying power.
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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.
