Ryan Adams Quotes
To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
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I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
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Oh God - I look back now, and it seems so gross. At just 14 years old, I had to wear a thong bikini. And then they used that scene in the trailer, so my entire school saw it! There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!
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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
