Adam Duritz Quotes
When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few in front of different schools, you get really comfortable talking in front of an audience.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.
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Every morning I wake up and think good, another 24 hours' pipe-smoking.
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I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
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When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
