Adam McKay Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Naomi Watts -
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe -
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
Ralph Abernathy -
There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
Edgar Wright -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
Zoe Saldana -
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming -
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
Laura Schlessinger -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
I like to have something to base a role on.
Sam Heughan
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
Gail Simmons -
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Samuel George Morton -
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton -
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron -
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
Katey Sagal
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I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
Daniel Keys Moran -
It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
J. T. Walsh -
I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.
Greg Ginn Black Flag -
I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!
Zoe McLellan -
I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
Adam McKay