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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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
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We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.
