Adam McKay Quotes
'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
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'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
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Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
