Aja Brown Quotes
Compton is a much safer Compton than it was in the '80s. People play in parks. People aren't afraid to be out at night.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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Obviously, I am the cook. The cook is the director. He arranges the menu, the seating order of the guests; he gives refuge to the lovers; he prepares the repast of the lover's body. The cook is a perfectionist and a rationalist, a portrait of myself.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
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The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
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Compton is a much safer Compton than it was in the '80s. People play in parks. People aren't afraid to be out at night.
