Adele Quotes

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

Adele

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• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

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• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

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• Every wall is a door.

  

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• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

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• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

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• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

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• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

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• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

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• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

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• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

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• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  

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• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

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• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

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• It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

  

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• Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.

  

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• My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and "Wow! This is like incredible work!"

  

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• I reckon you have to put a presence in front of your opponent - a bit of confidence and attitude - and then you can change what their next move may be.

  

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• No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

  

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• I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

  

  Adele
  • Artist
  • Brand
  • Shameful