Adam Beach Quotes
As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I take my work seriously.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.
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Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.
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Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.
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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
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As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.
