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 don't feel closeted.
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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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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
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'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.
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It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.
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People will always complain that it's not Entertainment! There will be great reviews, mediocre reviews and there will be people who don't like it. That's the way it goes.
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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.
