Adam McKay Quotes
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I did half a year of theatre.
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Please repeat: influence is not popularity.
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I don't like allegories.
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As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
