Adam Shankman Quotes
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.
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This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
