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I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

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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Shows
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Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
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I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.
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A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation.
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If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
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It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.
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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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It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.
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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 decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
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I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
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I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.
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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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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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If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day. You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.
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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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The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.
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It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
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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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It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
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