Adrian Younge Quotes
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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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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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
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Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
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The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
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I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.
