Adam Schlesinger Quotes
I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We just here to do our job.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Musicians have always adopted Macs.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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The music I make, I'm different.
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I'm shy, although I'm not shy with my friends and family.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
