Adam McKay Quotes
America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.
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No one knows what a gazelle is anyway. This is America motherfucker, get it right.
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I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
