Peyton Reed Quotes
What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.
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I always have to be me.
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My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.
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If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
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There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.
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I don't find that I subscribe or believe in many rules about what comedy is and what makes it funny.
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What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
