Todd Solondz Quotes

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Something
  • Respond

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Innovation

• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • God
  • You
  • Like

• If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

  

  Frank A. Clark
  • Thankful

• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Important
  • Moving

• There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

  

  Greg Lake
  • Different
  • Healthy
  • Shopping

• My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.

  

  Matthew Vasquez
  • Experience
  • Impact
  • Songwriting

• But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Important
  • Anonymity