Adam Duritz Quotes
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.
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A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters.
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In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
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Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
