Adam Schlesinger Quotes
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I had great teammates. Adam Jones took great care of me. Mike Gonzalez took good care of me.
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Veramente a così alto sospettonon ti fermar, se quella nol ti diceche lume fia tra 'l vero e lo 'ntelletto.Non so se 'ntendi; io dico di Beatrice.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
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I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
