Arnold Adoff Quotes
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.
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Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
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People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and some of the other things.
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
