Aja Brown Quotes
I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.

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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
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I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.