Adam Ross Quotes
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I get very nervous about not being around the office.
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For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
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I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.
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I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
