Christina Aguilera Quotes
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Playing villains is very liberating because unlike the leading man, nothing is expected of you. Leading men have to look good, they have to behave in a certain way, they have to fulfill an audience's expectations. But as a bad guy, you have free license to take the audience by surprise. And that's what audiences want - they want unpredictability from their villains. The villain's job is to subvert it.
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In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
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I didn’t really believe I had 'tiger blood' or 'Adonis DNA.' These were just jokes.
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There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small breakdown!
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
