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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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.
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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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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.
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I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.
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As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
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I've grown a lot as a singer and a songwriter, but also as a person. I communicate better with my band, and our relationships are stronger and closer.
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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.
