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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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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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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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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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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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.
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I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
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And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
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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.
