Peter Bogdanovich Quotes
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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We should all love animals.
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Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future?
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
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You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
