Ryan Adams Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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If I'm happy with what I'm putting out and proud of it - that is becoming enough for me. It's testing myself, but I'm ready to do it, whereas I wasn't ready before. Sometimes it's feigned confidence, but if I make a decision, I can do anything.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.
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I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there anymore, and the late-night talk competition is weak. All them dudes is weak. I don't even know who they are. Weirdos, and I don't even care. I want to bring real fun back to late night where a real comedian is doing it.
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One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: 'Call Mrs. Evans; she'll bail you out.'
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The night destroys the sun
