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And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

Clay Aiken

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Clay Aiken
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: November 30
Actor
Musician
Politician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Raleigh
North Carolina
Clayton Holmes Aiken
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Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
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When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.
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If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.
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I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.
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I'm tired and I don't know what day it is.
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Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
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I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.
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You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
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I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
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But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
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I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.
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I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.
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