Ryan Adams Quotes
Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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I don't have to wear any other makeup as long as I have blush.
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Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.
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Just getting our plays in, slowing down the game and making sure we were executing on offense and defense, and playing together, not just getting transition layups all the time.
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Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
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Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.
