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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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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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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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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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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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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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'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
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As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.
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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
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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.
