Adam Mansbach Quotes
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.
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People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
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I really don't know anything about music.
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just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
