Adam Lambert Quotes
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.
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I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there...
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
