Larry Merchant Quotes
Only fighting each other could have brought that much effort out, at a time in their careers when fighters, given all the punches that had landed on them, generally don't want to go that far.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
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I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.
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I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
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Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
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Only fighting each other could have brought that much effort out, at a time in their careers when fighters, given all the punches that had landed on them, generally don't want to go that far.
