Tom Shadyac Quotes
I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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What is the world coming to?
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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So high, so low, so many things to know.
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Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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I feel sorry for human resource people nowadays. HR is marginalized. No one really pays much attention to what's going on in HR and HR struggles with the fact that what is prevalent in America today is job boards, huge databases that we use to recruit and hire people.
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I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.