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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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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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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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Acting's boring.
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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.
