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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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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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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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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You can’t come back. It was written like this, meant to be like this and you can’t change destiny. What happened was because it had to happen. I had great moments in my life and I’m happy with what I achieved.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
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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.
