Gene Siskel Quotes
I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.
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I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'
