Adam Green Quotes
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
