Adnan Sami Quotes
My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.
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It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.
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This is the standard line of the Trump side of the party, that us who oppose him are just a bunch of elites who live in the Acela corridor in this bubble of unimaginable wealth. I wish I had been born into an extremely wealthy New York real estate family and been given multimillion dollar loans to get my start in life.
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My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.
