Todd Solondz Quotes
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.
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I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
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The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation.
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When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
