Ryan Adams Quotes
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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Bad nights lead to better days
