Ryan Adams Quotes
I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
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I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
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While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
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I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.
