Todd Solondz Quotes

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Todd Solondz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1959

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The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Jeremy Rifkin

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I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

Andrea Bocelli

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Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

Megan Fox

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When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

Robert Redford

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When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

Matthew Perry

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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Jeff Bezos

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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Michel de Montaigne

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With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.

Jonathan Ive

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I've never gone to comedy clubs.

Don Rickles

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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

Bonnie Blair

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Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

Bridgit Mendler

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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.

Annie Besant

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