Adam Jones Quotes
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!
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Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.
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The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
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I listened to make sure she wasn’t coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional.
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We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
