Adam Neumann Quotes
When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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The work is the work. The work is not me.
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Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.
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When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.
