Whitney Balliett Quotes
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett
Quotes to Explore
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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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All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.
Kamala Lopez
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I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare and we believe that it is what he looked like, well maybe a little older, fatter and with a higher hairline. I guess it would be cool if the portraits that were painted really did look like the sitter or expressed some sort of emotion that gave the viewers in the future a sense of the sitter's pathos at the time it was painted.
David Kassan
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
Garth Brooks
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My fitness inspiration has always been athletes, my whole life. Serena Williams is a great friend of mine and Ronda Rousey - we did Sports Illustrated together. Obviously, following powerful women and seeing their bodies and how hard they work is really inspiring to me.
Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett