Gene Siskel Quotes
The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.
Quotes to Explore
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.
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If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.
