Adam Jones Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
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I think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.