Adam Rippon Quotes
I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.
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A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!
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And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
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It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.
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I wanted to tell people that hope is really powerful.
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I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.
