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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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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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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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
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The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.
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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.
