Adrian Younge Quotes
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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I take my work seriously.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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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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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.
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Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.
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I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'
