Adam Wainwright Quotes
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.
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To have the opportunity to play for the best club in the world gives you the opportunity to play against the best players in the world.
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I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.