Alan Sepinwall Quotes
It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
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My country tears of thee.
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There's not as much disdain for the older demographic as we saw five to ten years ago.
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.
