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Adam McKay Quotes

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Texas Born Colorado Up Grew

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Hair View Fair Being Come Christ

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Life Sad Art Painting Museum Group

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

John Cassavetes

Talent Humility Gangster You Want

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

Music Listening Hip-Hop Started Been

Sure, I've done enough partying for 10 guys.

Enough Done Partying Sure Guys

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

Fire Stage Out Twice Leg Just

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

Great People You Victories Pitcher

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

Women Truth Baseball People Me Team

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

Winter Dress Me American Learn Way

I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

Time People Roots World Feel Help

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

Antonio Gramsci

Fly Die Know Turn Where Like

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

Life I Am Me Conflict Story My Life

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