Adam McKay Quotes
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
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It seems to me a painting she is working on like the one I gave Manet 'The Harbour at Lorient' could perhaps sell, and that is all I care about.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
