Adrian Smith Quotes
We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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We're an American company; we're proud of being an American company.
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Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
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We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
