Adam Wainwright Quotes
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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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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The years teach much which the days never know.
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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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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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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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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.
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I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
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The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
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My tastes are Viennese.
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I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.
