Adam Ant Quotes
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
