Todd Solondz Quotes
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
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Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
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This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
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Everything you do in life affects everything else.
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Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
