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.
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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 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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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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My parents believed in the power of education.
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When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one day, I'm afraid of losing the book and losing the energy.
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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.
