Adam Mansbach Quotes:- Adam Mansbach (born July 1, 1976) is an American author. He has previously been a visiting professor of literature at Rutgers University-Camden, with their New Voices Visiting Writers program (2009–2011). Mansbach graduated from Columbia College in 1998 and received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2000.
Inspirational Adam Mansbach Quotes
“Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.”
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“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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“There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.”
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“The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.”
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“One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.”
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“When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.”
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“For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress – the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.”
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“To me, ‘The End of the Jews’ – both the title and the novel itself – is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.”
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“If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn’t complain about.”
Adam Mansbach
“Novels are pirated all the time, but it’s hard to imagine that you’re at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it’s the new Phillip Roth novel.”
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“I think there’s a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There’s still a lot of subjects that I think people aren’t entirely comfortable being honest about.”
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Famous Quotes by Adam Mansbach
“My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it’s true.”
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“Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate, or sane.”
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“To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.”
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“My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.”
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“The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I’m gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.”
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“The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.”
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“The genius of vinyl is that it allows – commands! – us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.”
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“I’ve probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can’t remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.”
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“America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.”
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“For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It’s the procrastination, the thinking about writing that’s difficult.”
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“I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I’m up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.”
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Best Adam Mansbach quotes and Sayings
“We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn’t fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn’t look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.”
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“When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn’t really about disapproval; it’s about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.”
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“Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.”
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“Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.”
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“For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.”
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“As a writer, I’ve always been somebody who’s been productive and hustled hard.”
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“I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you’re surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren’t distracted by people’s conversations.”
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“My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.”
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Top 10 Adam Mansbach quotes
“I’ve always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.”
Adam Mansbach
“I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there’s this conflation of race, culture, and religion.”
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“If you’re a novelist, as I am in real life, you’re usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.”
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“A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven’t eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you’re doing something wrong.”
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“Fundamentally, I’m profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.”
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