Adam McKay Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
-
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
-
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.
-
I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
-
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.
-
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!
-
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
-
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
-
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
-
I think I'm very old-fashioned.
-
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
-
I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
-
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.
-
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
-
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
-
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.
-
O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.
-
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
-
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
-
I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
-
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
