Ryan Adams Quotes
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
Quotes to Explore
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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I like to improvise.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
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Through my work with CBBC, I have been seriously committed to encouraging young people to get outdoors and to engage with wildlife not just around the country but also right on their doorstep.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
