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'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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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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I would walk into an audition, and they'd say, 'Here comes Clinton Derricks-Carroll's brother.' They could never remember my name.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.
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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.
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Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.
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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.
