Pauline Kael Quotes
Object to the Hollywood film and you’re an intellectual snob, object to the avant-garde films and you’re a Philistine. But, while in Hollywood, one must often be a snob; in avant-garde circles one must often be a Philistine.Pauline Kael
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in giving back.
Laura San Giacomo -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I don't believe in regret.
Sadie Jones -
I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
Quavo Migos -
In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
Tavi Gevinson
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
Taron Egerton -
Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
Naveen Jain -
I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
Saina Nehwal -
We are not going to abandon Iraq.
Zalmay Khalilzad -
Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
Otto Preminger -
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Fanny Brice
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
Frances McDormand -
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom -
I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find.
Karin Slaughter -
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
Karl Rove -
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Ian Mcewan -
No, the reward comes in knowing that our entire way of life in America depends on the rule of law; that the maintenance of that law is a hard and daily labor; that in this country, we don’t have soldiers in the streets or militias setting the rules. Instead, we have public servants - police officers - like the men who were taken away from us.
Barack Obama
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We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.
Hillary Clinton -
Our troops are home. It's time for American business to replace the yellow ribbons with help wanted signs.
Bobby Kotick -
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.
Hermann Hesse -
I like to use horror as allegory.
George A. Romero -
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.
Aaron Koblin -
Object to the Hollywood film and you’re an intellectual snob, object to the avant-garde films and you’re a Philistine. But, while in Hollywood, one must often be a snob; in avant-garde circles one must often be a Philistine.
Pauline Kael