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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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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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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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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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
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There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!
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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.
