Adam Schlesinger Quotes
Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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I love proving people wrong.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.
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I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.
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I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
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Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.
