Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
ADAM MCKAYI went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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