Todd Solondz Quotes
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
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A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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We can afford almost any mistake once.
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On the red carpet, one tip is to suck in your cheekbones - apparently it looks better on camera. I don't know, though; I think a nice smile is best.
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Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning. I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today.
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I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.
