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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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.
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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.
