Todd Solondz Quotes
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I no longer limit myself.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara - things that you probably shouldn't like.
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You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.
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Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
