Brandon Adams Quotes
I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.
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At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
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Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.
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Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. And bands like Vampire Weekend.
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The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
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I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
