Adam Garcia Quotes
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I'd love a job at Facebook.
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You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.
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Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.
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I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
