Adwoa Aboah Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
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I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
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School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.
