David Bianculli Quotes
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.
