Aja Brown Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
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I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of me. I believe that being that close to the animal makes a huge difference in the photographers ability to reveal its personality. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.
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I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.
