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Aja Brown Quotes

It's almost hip to, you know, be from Brooklyn or to live in Brooklyn.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 17, 1982

Topics

Live You Brooklyn Know Almost Hip

I have a masters in African-American literature, and I got a Ph.D. in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be!

Woman American Literature Forty

I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.

Voice Loved Doing My Own Become Kid

I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake.

Hate People Think Fake Feel Always

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Good Me Weather Hell Out Lived

I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Leadership Father Lie Wise Brave

My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.

Daughter Me More Songwriting Far

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

Cinema Serious Film Fan Contemporary

It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.

Hate Men Clothes You Find Want

If I hadn't become an actor, I would've pursued a race-car driving career.

Driving Career Actor Become Pursued

I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it.

Smart Criticism Judge Find Argument

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

Christopher Buckley

Rose Ship Remember Strange Nest

You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

Care You I Can Know Cry Want

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