Ryan Adams Quotes
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
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I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.
