Adam McKay Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
Karen Salmansohn -
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
Walter Payton -
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon -
If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
Abhishek Bachchan -
If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
Barry Pepper
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
Warren Farrell -
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham -
A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
Adam Mansbach -
Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
Mandy Moore -
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
Ian Mckellen -
There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
Walter Smith -
On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
Hans Frank -
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
Ian Watson
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Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
Bob Marley -
I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
Eden Hazard -
I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.
Matt Lanter -
I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
Rae Carson -
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
Camille Paglia -
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay