Tom Shadyac Quotes
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
Quotes to Explore
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
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We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do.
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When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
