Ryan Adams Quotes
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
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Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
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Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats.
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Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.
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I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.