Adam Schlesinger Quotes
When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.
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The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.
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The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.
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Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
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For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
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When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
