Adam Duritz Quotes
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
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Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager, there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept.
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We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.
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The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.
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The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
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The point of my music? The point I just want to get across is I'm me and I exist. Just letting people know who I am. Ever since I was young, I was the little attention grabber; I always loved attention. I want to grab people's attention. I want them listen to me and know that this is really good music. Whether they like it or not, they're gonna listen.
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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
