Adam McKay Quotes
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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People work hard.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that
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TV requires a lot more patience. No one's ever like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an easy life. With 'Silicon Valley,' it's long hours and very unglamorous.
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Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
