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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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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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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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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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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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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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.
