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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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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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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The biggest sin is unbelief. God wants us to believe Him. But we rebel against God when we refuse to trust Him.
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.
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They wanted just the kids to get wet, but I ... just jumped out there with them.
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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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.
