Stuart Adamson Quotes
I was writing a contemporary take on Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, but with a guy driving a Bus load of tourists.
Stuart Adamson
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
Damien Rice
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Tabatha Coffey
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
Kate Walsh
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
D. A. Pennebaker
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
Dakota Fanning
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
Daniel Alarcon
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Gao Xingjian
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I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
Lara Giddings
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Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
Gaines Adams
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
Daniel Ellsberg
