James Adomian Quotes
I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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I'm not very relaxed; I always need to be doing something.
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I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
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Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
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I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.
