Adam McKay Quotes
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I try to keep a low profile.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.
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Karrin Murphy: Yes, Your honor, your victim was killed by a werewolf.
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
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I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
