Aaron Stanford Quotes
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.
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People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me.
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
