Adam McKay Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
