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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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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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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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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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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One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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.
