Adelaide Clemens Quotes
I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
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I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.
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In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
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And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
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I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.
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I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
