Adam Duritz Quotes
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
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People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
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But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.
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The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
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Trump gets too much credit for 'Teen Vogue''s evolution.
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Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.
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If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
