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.

Pauline Kael

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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.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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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.

  

  Ian Lustick
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• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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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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• Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

  

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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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

  

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• We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally... it's important for us to say who we are.

  

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• When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

  

  Elayne Boosler
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• I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

  

  Ryan Adams
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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.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Art