Ryan Adams Quotes

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

Ryan Adams

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dinner

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Never
  • English

• When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Classmates

• You have to develop a very thick skin.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • You
  • Skin
  • Thick Skin

• But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Christian

• Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity.

  

  Clay Shirky
  • Society

• Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Water

• Dig just a little bit deeper. Work just a little bit harder. And don't get weary! Remember this is personal! Let's finish what we started, and re-elect President Barack Obama!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Work
  • Remember

• A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

  

  Joe DiMaggio

• Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Cold
  • Tired
  • Survival

• I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Money
  • Why
  • Comedy

• A couple of weeks before the 1992 Houston Open, I was probably as low as I could get confidence-wise. I didn't think I was going to go any further, and then, out of nowhere, I won that week. That kind of got me going.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Couple
  • Confidence
  • Wise

• I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

  

  Alain Robert
  • World

• I think I'm so low key.

  

  Ato Boldon

• People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Reality

• I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Wife
  • Silly
  • Old Friends

• That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Left

• I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Men
  • Bigs
  • Neighbor

• Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

  

  Ryan Adams