Adam McKay Quotes
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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 don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
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I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.
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As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
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All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.
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In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
