Todd Solondz Quotes
When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.
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I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.
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Estonians are much more used to Internet banking rather than an online credit card.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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We are the world, we are the children.
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Never lose sight of what you're trying to say, and remain open to what's happening while you're filming.
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When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
