Adam Mansbach Quotes
I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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You can never have enough talent.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
