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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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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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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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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I remember my guidance counselor, when I told her I wanted to apply to Harvard, she paused and said, 'That's in New York, right?' The funny thing is, I didn't really know. It was a few weeks before I was like, 'No, I think it's in Massachusetts.'
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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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.
