Adam McKay Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.
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You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
