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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Music never felt like a job.
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The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.
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Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
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Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
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I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.
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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.
