Adam Mansbach quote: "I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti."

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

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

All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.
The froggie has made his last leap.
Hell no yo...
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

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear...
ADAM DURITZ

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur...
ADAM DAVIDSON

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o...
ADAM DRIVER

When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ...
ADAM WEST

There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
ADAM PEATY

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
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

Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i...
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

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.
ADAM SANDLER

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g...
ADAM SANDLER

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's...
ADAM WEST

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's...
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

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ...
ADAM CAROLLA

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.
ADAM CAROLLA

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a de...
ADAM CAROLLA

I get depressed at airports.
ADAM CAROLLA

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
ADAM CAROLLA

There are certain things women are better at than men.
ADAM CAROLLA

I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been a...
ADAM CAROLLA

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
ADAM CAROLLA

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
ADAM CAROLLA

I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an e...
ADAM CAROLLA

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
ADAM CAROLLA

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
ADAM CAROLLA

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
ADAM CAROLLA

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If...
ADAM CAROLLA

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you ...
ADAM CAROLLA

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real est...
ADAM CAROLLA

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off...
ADAM CAROLLA

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. ...
ADAM CAROLLA

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' ...
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

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a toug...
ADAM BRODY

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
ADAM BRODY

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go...
ADAM BEACH

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ...
ADAM BEACH

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work ...
ADAM BEACH

I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples...
ADAM BEACH

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.
ADAM BEACH

What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indi...
ADAM BEACH

I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,&#...
ADAM BEACH

I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
ADAM BEACH

As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the w...
ADAM BEACH

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and ...
ADAM BEACH

I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people want...
ADAM BEACH

Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to conne...
ADAM BEACH

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we...
ADAM BEACH

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies cha...
ADAM BEACH

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I...
ADAM BEACH

I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting w...
ADAM BEACH

When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a...
ADAM BEACH

Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People wh...
ADAM BEACH

With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I...
ADAM BEACH

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
ADAM BEACH

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hop...
ADAM BEACH

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they&...
ADAM BEACH

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
ADAM BALDWIN

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clin...
ADAM BALDWIN

I'm not much of a jokester.
ADAM BALDWIN

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
ADAM BALDWIN

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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 ...
ADAM BALDWIN

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
ADAM BALDWIN

Bad things happen sometimes.
ADAM ANT

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
ADAM ANT

Creative people are more prone to depression.
ADAM ANT

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocke...
ADAM ANT

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
ADAM ANT

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
ADAM ANT

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.
ADAM ANT

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
ADAM ANT

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
ADAM ANT

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
ADAM ANT

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat i...
ADAM ANT

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar ...
ADAM ANT

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more comple...
ADAM ANT

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a m...
ADAM ANT

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted i...
ADAM ANT

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
ADAM ANT

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

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