Adam Rayner Quotes

I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

Adam Rayner

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• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

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• Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

  

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• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

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• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

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• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

  

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• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

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• Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.

  

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• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  

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• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

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• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
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• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

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• You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

  

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• Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

  

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• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

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• I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.

  

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• Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.

  

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• I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

  

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• I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

  

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• I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.

  

  Lanford Wilson
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• I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • Time
  • Great
  • American