Adam McKay Quotes
Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I'm pretty tough and picky when it comes to actors that I admire.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
