Adam Silvera Quotes
When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
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When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.
