Tom Shadyac Quotes

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

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• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • You
  • Down
  • Cricket

• I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Grow

• Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Help

• The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

  

  Jay Parini
  • America
  • Gun

• Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Player
  • Service

• I'm mainstream.

  

  The Weeknd

• The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.

  

  James Carville

• Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • Work
  • College
  • Player

• A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Road

• Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Red

• After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Life
  • Couple
  • Growth

• I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to.

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Hair

• Films with a message just make me laugh.

  

  Claude Chabrol

• I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

  

  Mari Evans

• To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

  

  Bernhard Goetz
  • Gun

• There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• A lot of people want to keep me off my feet. I say a lot of things that are on my mind; I'm a very honest person. On top of that I'm a weird figure for hip-hop: this person who doesn't drink, smoke or do any of those weird things.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • People
  • Mind
  • Weird

• TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

  

  Tom Shadyac