Adam McKay Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
