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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To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.
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One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
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I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.
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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.
