Adam Giles Quotes
If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Love, and do what you like.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
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My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
