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Adam McKay Quotes

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Too Much Sometimes Up Idea

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Failure Live People Eye Name Week

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Happiness Purpose Skills Test Some

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

Stanley Hauerwas

History Experience Sacrifice War

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

School Start Uniform More Up Used

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

Work Quality Looking Seriously Dying

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

Great Myself Ocean Joy River Hands

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it's hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Confidence Competition People You

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

Work Father Respect Happy Person He

I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

I Am Retirement Permanent Retire Am

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

Teen Me Why Never Mean Understood

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

Me Thinking Grow Shoe Grow Up Up

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

Sharon Lawrence

Women Great Winning Foundation Award

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