Todd Solondz Quotes

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

Todd Solondz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkBetterAdaptKindMy OwnMean

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Meghan Ory

LoveFunYouActingFantasyMaybe

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

John Mellencamp

WorkGoodDayHappyPeopleBe Happy

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

John Stossel

FreeChoicesStandCountryWhyEven

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Roger Penrose

NatureBookKnowRightPointHere

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

Roxane Gay

InternetSaidSayBelievingSeeUs

Making fitness a priority will energize you, make you look and feel better, and help diffuse stress.

Mary Helen Bowers

FitnessStressBetterHelpYouLook

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

Joshua Henry

LifeRelationshipChildhoodPastYou

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

Jared Kushner

BusinessProductBuildMoreEasier

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

Douglas Coupland

FamilyMotherTimeMyselfMeFace

Both creatively and organizationally, being medicated has helped me immensely.

Chris Gethard

MeBeingBothHelpedCreatively

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

Christopher Paolini

BlueMeMoonYouProfessionalThree

It's just crazy to have a dream - have a plan - and then it all just kind of comes true. To me, that proves that you have to have a vision first.

Cole Swindell

VisionMeCrazyPlanYouDream

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