Adam Schlesinger Quotes
Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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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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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
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Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
