Pauline Kael Quotes

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Pauline Kael

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• A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Alone

• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • First
  • Piano
  • Wrote

• Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Want
  • Career
  • Comedy

• In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Business
  • Day
  • Plan

• Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Fun
  • Driving
  • Bike

• That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.

  

  Wale
  • Like
  • Person
  • Agree

• Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Job

• My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Good
  • Job
  • Study

• If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Women
  • Hair
  • Clothes

• I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Look

• I'm not going to disappear.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Going
  • Disappear

• But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • California

• I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Think
  • You
  • Said

• We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Why
  • Lost

• One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

  

  Pauline Kael