Brandon Adams Quotes
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A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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I think I'm more European in personality.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
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I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.
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Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
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I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.
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I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
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I can sing; I can hold a tune.
