Pauline Kael Quotes
The craftsmanship that Hollywood has always used as a selling point not only doesn’t have much to do with art - the expressive use of techniques - it probably doesn’t have very much to do with actual box-office appeal, either.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.
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Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.
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Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.
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LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults.
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The craftsmanship that Hollywood has always used as a selling point not only doesn’t have much to do with art - the expressive use of techniques - it probably doesn’t have very much to do with actual box-office appeal, either.
