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.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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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.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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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.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.
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I'm such a dog person. I dunno, I just feel like it really enriches your life, to have something to care for.
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I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.
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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
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After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
