Ryan Adams Quotes
The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
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We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
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I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
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The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.
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The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.
