Adam Silvera Quotes
I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
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I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.
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I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
