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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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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One extra benefit to remember: safety + belonging + mattering = trust.
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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.
