Adam McKay Quotes
I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.
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Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.
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It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.
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I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
