Tom Shadyac Quotes

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Way
  • Day
  • Where

• I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Way
  • See
  • Mountain

• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Way
  • Government
  • Best

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Real
  • Fact
  • Invention

• You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

  

  Abba Eban
  • You
  • Way
  • Achieve

• It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

  

  Larry Page
  • Way
  • Complicated
  • Importance

• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Way
  • Wall

• I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Way
  • Style
  • Relate

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Force

• What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Long
  • Way

• I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

  

  Roman Reigns
  • Way
  • Born
  • Situation

• You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Way
  • Certain

• Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Leadership

• The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

  

  Tom Shadyac
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  • Invention
  • Concepts