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I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.


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ADAM CAROLLA My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bi...
ADAM BROWN As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
ADAM BROWN It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
ADAM BROWN You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It&#...
ADAM BROWN I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
ADAM BRODY Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been loo...
ADAM BRODY I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
ADAM BRODY I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not ...
ADAM BRODY I have a pretty lousy voice.
ADAM BRODY It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
ADAM BRODY I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Sm...
ADAM BRODY I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my...
ADAM BRODY If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
ADAM BRODY I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
ADAM BRODY There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newp...
ADAM BRODY Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls bef...
ADAM BRODY My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
ADAM BRODY I like to always have humour in whatever I do.
ADAM BRODY I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are...
ADAM BRODY I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain ag...
ADAM BRODY It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I trul...
ADAM BRODY It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your be...
ADAM BRODY Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
ADAM BRODY I'm a fake intellectual.
ADAM BRODY I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surpris...
ADAM BRODY I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. ...
ADAM BRODY