Todd Solondz Quotes
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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For DC, I'm working on the new 'Red Lanterns' and 'JLA Dark.' Both of these are very different books, which is great for me. I've heard 'JLA Dark' described as a team of people with supernatural powers - but that's only half the story.
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Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
