Adam Rubin Quotes

Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.

Adam Rubin

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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Fiction

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

  

  Paracelsus
  • May
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Political
  • Personalities

• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Jesus
  • Meaning
  • Example

• Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • American
  • History

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • High
  • Know
  • Guys

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Money
  • Want
  • Security

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Feel
  • Class
  • Last

• Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Help
  • Everything
  • Deepest

• Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Good
  • Find
  • Good Things

• It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pain

• If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Always

• I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

  

  J. Tillman
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Stop

• My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Arrangements
  • My Songs

• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Kids
  • Poetry
  • Ability

• Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.

  

  Adam Rubin
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Adults