Aja Brown Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
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I think Compton is definitely a part of my, my family history - a part of me.
