Adi Shankar Quotes
I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
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It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.
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I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.
