Adam Jacobs Quotes

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show Aladdin, we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
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• I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

  

  Fefe Dobson
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• It's much easier to work with an unknown.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
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• When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
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• I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.

  

  Haley Webb
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• My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

  

  Udonis Haslem
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• Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
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• I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.

  

  Donald Evans
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• I think I have a great voice, but it's not special enough to be remembered. But what's special about me is much more than just my voice.

  

  John Grant
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• Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

  

  David Rakoff
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• Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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• We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show Aladdin, we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

  

  Adam Jacobs
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