Tom Shadyac Quotes
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
Quotes to Explore
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
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Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
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When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
