Stuart Adamson Quotes
Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.
Quotes to Explore
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
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I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Just let your skin breathe.
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Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.
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I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That means we need new jobs, good jobs, with rising incomes.
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Anxiety - or the fanaticism of the worst.
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Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.
