Adam Quotes

I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Nicklaus at the 86 Masters. At his age, with his game at the time.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

What good's a captive without her captor?

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word "myth" only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?

The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

Markets are conversations.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

Nothing wrong with making money.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].

Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.