Patrick J. Adams Quotes
My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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Justice is revenge.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
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I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I was never religious.
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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
