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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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.
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I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.
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There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
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I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
