Adam McKay Quotes
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on single-camera comedies or sitcoms, or anything like that, but it certainly has been a part of my career.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
