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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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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.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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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.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.
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We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
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I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
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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.
