Adam Nevill Quotes

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

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• There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Life
  • Path

• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • American
  • Discover
  • American Music

• One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Occupation
  • Nowadays

• He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

  

  Confucius
  • Ocean
  • Crosses
  • Washing

• The anti-choice folks across the country are feeling emboldened by the climate. You have an anti-choice president, you have an anti-choice U.S. House and Senate.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Senate
  • Anti-choice
  • U.S. House

• It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Humanity
  • Touch
  • Sweetness

• The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Arts
  • Bottom Line

• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Write
  • Secret

• Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all.

  

  Bridgett Devoue
  • Science
  • Chemistry

• The internet is just a passing fad.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Internet

• Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • World
  • Successful
  • Trusted

• Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Blanks

• It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Enough
  • Creating
  • Draws

• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Risk
  • Years
  • Parent

• It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Pop Culture
  • References

• Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work
  • Together
  • Fun

• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Single
  • Trouble
  • Lonely

• What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

  

  Adam Nevill
  • To Be
  • Wished