Todd Solondz Quotes
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
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It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
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The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
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I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there with.
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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
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After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
