Harry Knowles Quotes
What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside Star Wars and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.
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I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.
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Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.
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What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside Star Wars and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters.
