Adam Mansbach
Related JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI T.S. ELIOT DR. SEUSS JIM BENTON You see, Squirt, there's heaven, and then there's hell. Hell is where they send all the bad people, ... BROOKE DAVIS The Waking THEODORE ROETHKE KAMAND KOJOURI SANJO JENDAYI who are youM.K DAVID LEVITHAN CHARLOTTE BRONTë KELLIE ELMORE BOB MARLEY TAHEREH MAFI AMY TAN E.L. JAMES BILL WATTERSON BENJAMIN HOFF ROBIN HOBB LEWIS CARROLL RAINER MARIA RILKE JAMES FREY KAMAND KOJOURI moody —”TAHEREH MAFI The difference is,JJM VERA NAZARIAN Japanese goldfish,PAUL GALLICO KAMAND KOJOURI PABLO NERUDA LAILAH GIFTY AKITA JODI PICOULT SUZY KASSEM The search began 10 years agoPAPA G. HOMER RAINER MARIA RILKE SUZY KASSEM Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling FRED E. WEATHERLY Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleepMATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Where have you come from boy?'PAUL HOFFMAN PABLO NERUDA MARGARET ATWOOD No, Paige. I am trying to help you.”SAMANTHA SHANNON T.S. ELIOT You need to trustKAREN HACKEL JOHN WESLEY JOHN WESLEY JOHN LENNON You brought me to placesJUSTIN WETCH ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ELIZABETH GILBERT LEONARD COHEN DAVID ARCHULETA L.M. MONTGOMERY ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER SUZANNE COLLINS SARAH J. MAAS CAITLYN SIEHL E.L. JAMES Walk straight aheadRENéE PAULE ANNE CARSON DR. SEUSS If you think you are beaten, you areWALTER D. WINTLE ELLEN HOPKINS We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.KHALIL AL-SAKAKINI DR. SEUSS It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'JENNY DOWNHAM ANTHONY T. HINCKS ELLEN HOPKINS J. LYNN DR. SEUSS MARY OLIVER JENNIFER EGAN MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI JOSEPH CAMPBELL LOUIS DE BERNIèRES Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH If you think you're beaten, you are; WALTER D. WINTLE CHARLES BUKOWSKI STEPHEN SONDHEIM SIEGFRIED SASSOON RUSSELL HOBAN ELIZABETH GILBERT SUZY KASSEM W.B. YEATS JOHN COREY WHALEY PABLO NERUDA ANGIE SAGE DOUGLAS ADAMS there comes a timeBILLY DOYLE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE JAY KRISTOFF LANG LEAV MAGGIE STIEFVATER JALAL AD-DIN RUMI SAMANTHA YOUNG ANON. Glossa MIHAI EMINESCU Now go to sleep. I'll wake you up when I want you."DOMINIQUE FROST Remember The DreamJAMES INGRAM PATRICIA BRIGGS
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Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the... ADAM MANSBACH While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist... ADAM MANSBACH I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the ... ADAM MANSBACH As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. ADAM MANSBACH Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating... ADAM MANSBACH You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how... ADAM MANSBACH I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of su... ADAM MANSBACH The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You appro... ADAM MANSBACH Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the cultu... ADAM MANSBACH America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron. ADAM MANSBACH The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene. ADAM MANSBACH Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do... ADAM MANSBACH The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, edit... ADAM MANSBACH Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take t... ADAM MANSBACH One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social ci... ADAM MANSBACH Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you&#... ADAM MANSBACH There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to cha... ADAM MANSBACH One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams... ADAM MANSBACH To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant ... ADAM MANSBACH A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's awa... ADAM MANSBACH For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It'... ADAM MANSBACH The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history... ADAM MANSBACH Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two... ADAM MANSBACH When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comforta... ADAM MANSBACH My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my k... ADAM MANSBACH How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, fam... ADAM MANSBACH I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island. ADAM MANSBACH When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really a... ADAM MANSBACH The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hem... ADAM MANSBACH I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering i... ADAM MANSBACH The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in... ADAM MANSBACH There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's... ADAM MANSBACH Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open u... ADAM MANSBACH No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish. ADAM MANSBACH Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain ... ADAM MANSBACH My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which g... ADAM MANSBACH Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal... ADAM MANSBACH When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being... ADAM MANSBACH I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight. ADAM MANSBACH 'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in ... ADAM MANSBACH A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten... ADAM MANSBACH I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked m... ADAM MANSBACH Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad ... ADAM MANSBACH When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside w... ADAM MANSBACH The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to b... ADAM MANSBACH I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as l... ADAM MANSBACH Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other ... ADAM MANSBACH I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, cultur... ADAM MANSBACH In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desir... ADAM MANSBACH It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a par... ADAM MANSBACH Eating is one of the great pleasures of life. ADAM MANSBACH My approach is to treat writing very much as a job. ADAM MANSBACH I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them. ADAM MANSBACH I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I&#... ADAM MANSBACH Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can ... ADAM MANSBACH To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register. ADAM MANSBACH Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropri... ADAM MANSBACH My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in inter... ADAM MANSBACH I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new word... ADAM MANSBACH I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way,... ADAM MANSBACH To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat... ADAM MANSBACH For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is ... ADAM MANSBACH If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably t... ADAM MANSBACH If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feed... ADAM MANSBACH For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whini... ADAM MANSBACH Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill posi... ADAM MANSBACH We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got... ADAM MANSBACH Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ... ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ... ADAM ADAM DURITZ Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur... ADAM DAVIDSON ADAM DRIVER ADAM WEST There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. ADAM PEATY ADAM WEST You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&... ADAM GREEN I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES ADAM GRANT So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't... ADAM LEVINE Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true... ADAM LEVINE ADAM MCKAY I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm... ADAM LEVINE The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was most... ADAM MICHNIK I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself th... ADAM LAMBERT I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most o... ADAM LAMBERG ADAM SANDLER ADAM SANDLER ADAM WEST ADAM MCKAY It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive... ADAM DODEK That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou... ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic... ADAM CHRISTOPHER My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA 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&#... 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ADAM BALDWIN I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. ADAM BALDWIN I think work begets work. ADAM BALDWIN What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it. ADAM BALDWIN The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines.... ADAM BALDWIN I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. ADAM BALDWIN A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e... ADAM BALDWIN I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch ... ADAM BALDWIN I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me. ADAM BALDWIN It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the ... 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The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
You say I am repeating 
You have brains in your head.
There are four categories of questions Emmily asks:
The Waking
Tell me where the swans go in the winter
When you are doing all that you know to do 
The way you're singing in your sleep
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... 
...what happens when you return
when the words not enough to describe how much you love....
His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
The next world is 'segregated'? You can go to the World of Yin only if you're Chinese?"
Are you still mad at me?"
Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
To know the way, 
In that last dance of chances
Cat: Where are you going?
Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
You've never been in love?
If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.
Can we share my eyes 
I have named you queen.
Be yourself.
This is where I go, when I go:
THE NAKED HEART
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
THE NAKED HEART
You are the daughter of the sea,
Girl Without Hands
Now that lilacs are in bloom
Do all the good you can,
Do all the good you can,
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Lay a golden egg.
You have been to hell, Ketut?"
A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You're reaching out
Steal not this book for fear of shame
THE INVITATION
Are you, are you
What in hell is that?”
when you walk, you look like you’re trying to disappear.
Are you on your own?"
DEATH
I wanted to meet the monster. 
We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity... 
you fly until you crash two days 
Good God, you don’t give up.”
And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
Love, love, love, says Percy.
You said you were a fairy princess
O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
Follow your bliss.
The garden where you sit
and when love came to us twice 
Though it's fearful, 
Suicide in the trenches:
There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.
The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be... 
APPLY WITHIN
To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No
Fulton Dumas, do you know where Gabriel Witter is?" 
Sonnet LXXXI 
Blue to get ready
NO ADMITTANCE.
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Forget the girl who had everything. She died when her father did."
Do you know what it is like,
Are you going to lock your shitbox?"
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
You could charm the pants off absolutely anyone," I told him quietly.
I think of you often
A rape victim...a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It break... 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster. 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g... 
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's... 
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. 
I get depressed at airports. 
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been loo... 
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work ... 
Bad things happen sometimes. 
Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocke... 
My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world. 