Adam McKay Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.
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David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.
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Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
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When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
