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 That is very outdated.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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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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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
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I let the streets talk to me. The streets speak to you - how you find out what's new, what people are wearing, what people aren't wearing.
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I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.
