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Quote by Mike Myers
I wanted to have a very silly delivery system for some of the ideas I actually believe in.
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The speaker wanted to present some sincerely held ideas through a deliberately silly format. The contrast between “very silly” and “actually believe in” shows that a playful delivery does not make the underlying ideas insincere.
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“There had been no sculptor in my country for seventeen hundred years and the images that appeared among the ruins and sands at the edge of the desert were considered accursed, evil — no one should go near.”
“I don’t believe in industry’s perception, I believe in creating trends.”
“You tell a joke, they laugh. If they don’t laugh, you fix it, you go in a different way.”
“That there are funny parts to us, that we laugh at ourselves.”
“Imagination means nothing without doing.”
““Now we should talk about our history, make films about the human condition, the everyday drama of people, and I think, sophisticated comedies, good comedies.””
“舒服、好看、表达，衣服对我来说就是这样的。”
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“It would be great to have a year or two where I went, ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’”
“Art also is a kind of language – but it’s a language of feeling.”
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