Whitney Balliett Quotes
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
Ralph Macchio
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
Garrett Clayton
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
Conrad Black
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I probably took more than anybody could survive. … I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear, GO!. … I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. … Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
Charlie Sheen
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Jeanette Winterson
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One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
Jerry Saltz
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
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One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
Thomas Sowell
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I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold meis love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.
Aimee Mann
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"We have the proof that our disagreement with the U.A.R. is more than a simple misunderstanding."
Habib Bourguiba
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I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.
Patti Smith
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett