When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
ADAM DURITZCloseness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
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I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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When you’re young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There’s a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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