Adam Schlesinger Quotes
Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
Quotes to Explore
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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'Through sickness and through health' sounds so simple on your wedding day, but in reality, they become significant words that are a huge responsibility and show true character to navigate.
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We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
