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.

Adam McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 17, 1968

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I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Jo Brand

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Since JPMorgan Chase announced its surprise $2 billion-and-growing trading loss, there have been renewed calls from economists, pundits, and politicians to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking activities.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

John Lydon

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If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

Matt Damon

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I don't try to be someone I'm not.

Robert Whittaker

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We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.

Roy Wood

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I am healthy. I have been blessed with a very good body, and I have worked hard at it. I had surgery on my toe, and I'm still recovering from that. That's the only joint that was hurting. Earlier, I had a knee replacement, hip replacement, shoulder surgeries, but I have been lucky. I don't feel any pain when I play.

Martina Navratilova

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I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Michael Moore

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I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

Jason Jones

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I'm not one of those typical receivers who's like a robot in the slot or outside.

Doug Baldwin

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I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

Corey Haim

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I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

Brent Scowcroft

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