Adam DeVine Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
