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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.

Adam McKay

I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Care People Sense Talking
The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Announcing Comedy Dangerous Intention Room Thinking
Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Audience Country Economics Hollywood Issue Social
When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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Couple First Laughing Movie Screen Time Trying Work
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Anything Backward Color Judging Skin Someone Thinking
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Easiest Ice Serious Situation Break Time Way
It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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Aiming Break Comedy Country Damage Dangerous Ideology People Possession
Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Exhausted Hit Normally Start Three Two Yawning
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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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Began Fact Hardly Plan Republican Socialism
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Artistic General Little Minded More People Progressive
If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro

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