Adam Jones Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
