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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The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
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It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.
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Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
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Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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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.
