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 first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
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It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.
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If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it.
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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.
