Tom Shadyac Quotes
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
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I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
