Ryan Adams Quotes
There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)
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There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.
