Adam Wingard Quotes
I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
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Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
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I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
