Sarah Vowell Quotes
I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
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I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
