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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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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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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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'
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One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
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I'll officer you.
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People always tell me, 'Weiwei, leave the nation, please.' Or 'Live longer and watch them die.' Either leave, or be patient and watch how they die. I really don’t know what I’m going to do.
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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.
