Gene Siskel Quotes

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

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• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Family
  • Want

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Alone

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Cold

• I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

  

  Jessica Szohr

• I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Real

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

  

  Armand Assante
  • Italian
  • Gangster

• After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

  

  Gene Siskel
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