Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
AdeleRead
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.
Interpretation
Balancing work and personal life is crucial for maintaining healthy relationships.
In this quote, Adele reflects on the importance of dedicating time to nurture her personal relationships instead of being consumed by work. She emphasizes that finding a balance allows her to create happiness both in her music and personal life, suggesting that fulfillment comes from love and joy rather than just professional success.
In practice
This quote can be used during a discussion on work-life balance at a seminar.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
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