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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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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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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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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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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Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
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There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
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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.
