Adam Osborne Quotes

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Adam Osborne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: March 6, 1939 - March 18, 2003

Topics

MistakeLearnYouPerfectAnything

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

Jess Walter

GreatPeopleThinkYouJazzBecome

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

Michael Hayden

FutureRelationshipCommunityChanges

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.

Steve-O

MeWorldThinkMissionImportant

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

Roger Taylor

YourselfPictureYouSeeingSeeEra

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.

Judy Smith

LoveForgivenessQualityBlameDeep

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

Demi Lovato

BelieveSelfishThinkUniverseWay

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

Courtney Love

DaughterSmartFatQuestionsProblem

Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.

Bobby Lashley

TimeMagicYoungRingGetAlmost

I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.

Wong Kar-wai

CookingSometimesOthersNeedFilm

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

Susan Bysiewicz

InternetProblemUpTradeLawsOur

I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.

Shawn Mendes

PeopleTalented PeopleWhoLikeMany

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

Tim Heidecker

WorldRidiculousEverythingBigEric

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