Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.
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When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.
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In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.
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I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
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It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.
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I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.
