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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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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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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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.
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Alone, adj. In bad company.
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Larry's grandmother has died at age 104
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature we find enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.
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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.
