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Tom Shadyac Biography

Thomas Peter Shadyac (born December 11, 1958) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and author. Shadyac, who was the youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. In 2010, Shadyac departed from comedic work to write, direct, and narrate the documentary film I Am, in which he explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following a bicycle accident three years earlier.

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What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

Beat, Matter, Matters, What Matters, Who We Are

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

Asking, Discovering, Ended, Whats, World, Wrong

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

Art, Artist, Expected, Lawyer, Professional

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Act, Creative, People, Powerful

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

Keys, Life, Simplicity, Spiritual, Three

Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. 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. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

Body, Cancer, Fact, Law, Needs, Years

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

Attention, Enough, Heal, Heart, Moving, Paying

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Development, Principles, Technology, Thing

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.

Amazing, Events, Law, Laws, Order, School

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

Believe, Children, Kind, Master, Winning, Young

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Laughter, Sacred, Think, Thinking

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

Fear, Hang, Letting Go, Needs, Swim, Upstream

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

Changes, Circles, Moves, Moving, Small, World

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

Already, Become, Divine, Essence

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

Concept, Invented, People, Thinking, Truth, Way

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

Beautiful, Looks, Mankind, Redemptive, Stories, Whole

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Death, Enemy, Life, Love Is, Without Love

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Beget, Law, Mystics, Safe, Simply, Violent Acts

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

Believe, Division, Opposed, Unity

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

Ball, Bounce, Degrees, Tennis, Wall, Way

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