Boris Karloff Quotes
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.
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The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
