Aden Young Quotes
I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.
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In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
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I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
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I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there.
