Adrian Younge Quotes
I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I like things simple.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I like being unconventional.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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If yelling and threatening, intimidating and chanting solved problems, Illinois wouldn't have any problems. We're good at that stuff.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
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When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that.
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I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
