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I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Clay Aiken

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Clay Aiken
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 30
Actor
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Raleigh
North Carolina
Clayton Holmes Aiken
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I auditioned just for fun.
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UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?
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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 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 was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.
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Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
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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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