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" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "
Tom Shadyac
Never
Hollywood
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" Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. "
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" Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.' "
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" I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph. "
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" I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. "
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" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "
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" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "
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" You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave. "
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" Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism. "
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" To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. "
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" I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal. "
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" I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world. "
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" There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. "
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" As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. "
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" Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful. "
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" You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there. "
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" My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. "
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" I've been called crazy many times before. "
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" I believe in unity, as opposed to division. "
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" Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. "
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" Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it. "
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" I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "
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