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
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
Abel Korzeniowski
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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
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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
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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
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
Dan Buettner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
Sam Underwood
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I'm not going to disappear.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.
Terence McKenna
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I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
J. A. Konrath
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
