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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There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.
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I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
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Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.
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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
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As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman, but I respect the decision of the Court, and I think it's time to move on.
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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.
