Adam Schlesinger Quotes
I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
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Funny is an attitude.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.
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I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I can't work with people who aren't fun loving. I don't encourage such people.
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I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
