David Adjaye Quotes
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.
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A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.
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If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.
