Adele Quotes
I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
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I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
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My dad's a doctor, and he'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy,' and he'd be like, 'This is not okay. This isn't what it's like.' And we're like, 'Shut up, it's not about that. That's not why we're watching it.'
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We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.
