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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
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Baltimore
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Adam Fredric Duritz
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I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. 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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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You aren't really writing about what you did you're writing about how you feel.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
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Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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