Adam Gidwitz Quotes
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
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It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.
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A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.
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We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
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Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
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There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
