Adam Schlesinger Quotes

I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.

Adam Schlesinger

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• Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.

  

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

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• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

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• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

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• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
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• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

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• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
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• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
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• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
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• When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

  

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• I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'

  

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• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.

  

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• I'll do something that brings me a check.

  

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• I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that

  

  Webbie
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• I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song