Adena Friedman Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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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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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
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At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.
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It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
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Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.
