Adam McKay Quotes
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
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Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'
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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
