Todd Solondz Quotes
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
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The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.
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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
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Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
