Gerad Adams Quotes
As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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I would like to say that, as the protester finished his shower, I was disturbed by the contradiction between my avowed political materialism and my inexperience with this brand of making, of poeisis, but I could dodge or dampen that contradiction via my hatred of Brooklyn's boutique biopolitics, in which spending obscene sums and endless hours on stylized food preparation somehow enabled the conflation of self-care and political radicalism.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.
