Adam McKay Quotes
If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
