Daniel Adair Quotes
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
