Pauline Kael Quotes
TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.
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Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
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I am the richest person alive because I get to do what I love as a career.
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TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.
