Todd Solondz Quotes
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
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I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.
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In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
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Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
