Todd Solondz Quotes
What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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Like those itinerant clerics who traveled during the summer months and took over for vacationing priests, I hope to help out this summer in Provincetown, but without the pedophilia.
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This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.
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You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.
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There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.
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What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.
