Adam Beach Quotes
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I look formidable.
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I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.
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When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
