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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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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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
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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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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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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
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There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
