Adam McKay Quotes
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
