Todd Solondz Quotes

For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • She
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Quality
  • Strength
  • Paper

• Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • World
  • Games
  • Year

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Kind
  • Animals
  • Blame

• It's always about the music, never about anything else.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Always
  • Never

• Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• 'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Joy
  • Dance
  • Beauty

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Dad

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Health
  • Difficulties

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • People

• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Simple

• You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Good
  • Great
  • Care

• For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the same way. It's where people go to recreate, to reinvent themselves. It's what California used to be. I think Florida is still a place to erase the past.

  

  Todd Solondz
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