Adam Yauch Quotes
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
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I love playing characters that go to extreme places, and I love to explore different kinds of psychological landscapes, so it is ultimately a kind of fun, but it's also complicated and colored by the depth of the nastiness of it, at certain times, as well.
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I wanted to be the best in the world.
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If I'm a fan, I'm a fan for life.
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My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
