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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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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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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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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I am a Mumbaikar. It has a special place in my heart.
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I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
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In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.
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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.
