Adam McKay Quotes
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
