Adam Schlesinger Quotes

The Ting Tings have been a huge hit in my family. I have two young daughters, and both of them love that record, so I pretty much have to listen to that ten times a day.

Adam Schlesinger

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I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Journalism is not writing.

Michael Cimino

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When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

Amy Ray

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You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

Mike Krzyzewski

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You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

Mitchell Hurwitz

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I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

Joyner Lucas

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Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.

Josie Bissett

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And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to find parts of yourself in places that you wouldn't even think that you were, you know?

Dianne Reeves

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There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.

Brian Cox

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Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

Brent Sexton

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I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.

Marilynne Robinson

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I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

Lupe Fiasco

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