Todd Solondz Quotes
There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.Todd Solondz
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
Dale T. Mortensen -
I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
Ted Turner -
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Daniel De Leon -
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
Vikram Patel -
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
Urs Fischer
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
Octavia E. Butler -
Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
Ian Mckellen -
It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
Aaron Paul -
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg -
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
Yoko Ono -
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Oliver Stone
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
Victoria Azarenka -
Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.
Hank Haney -
I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
Usain Bolt -
X Out has helped me keep up my confidence, and I know it can help anyone who would rather have fun than worry about blemishes. If you want clear, seriously good-looking skin, X Out is for you.
Zendaya -
I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
Callie Khouri -
Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
Floyd Abrams
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I wanted to write a song not focused on looks. I realized a lot of songs, even when they are romantic, are more about how the artist feels than the person.
Bryce Ross-Johnson -
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.
Walt Whitman -
The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.
Sam Keen -
There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.
Kimiko Glenn -
I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.
Billy Lawrence -
There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.
Todd Solondz