Adam McKay Quotes
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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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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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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
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Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.
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I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
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Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
