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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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
