Rodney Atkins Quotes
Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
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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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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. The story turned out to be twice as long as it was supposed to be, but I was having fun. I even showed the Ranger in his 'old prospector' disguise, and I had some nice exchanges between the Ranger and Tonto.
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.
