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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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.
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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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I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
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The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.
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The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.
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Those who desire to be men in truth, and not brutes, having only the appearance and shape of men, must constantly endeavor to reduce the wants of the body, such as eating, love, drinking, anger, and all manners originating in lust and passion; they must feel ashamed of them and set limits to them for themselves.
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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.
