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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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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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 have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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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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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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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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I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.
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I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people; a maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
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I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
