Adam Duritz Quotes
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I like things simple.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
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For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
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I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
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There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
