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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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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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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I'm never going to try 'Carpool Karaoke' in New York. That would be a very different thing. Mariah Carey's one, we just drove, like, five or six blocks round where she was staying at the time.
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When she was reading she wasn’t the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn’t the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants’ backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
