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You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

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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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's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.
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Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
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I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
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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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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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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'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
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