Lee Siegel Quotes
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
Lee Siegel
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
R. Kelly
If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
Gaby Hoffmann
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
Carlo Ratti
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
Ted Cruz
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
Gabrielle Reece
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Adam McKay
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.
Joanne Rowling
Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
Napoleon Hill
I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
Sam Taylor-Wood
One of my favorite movies is 'Some Like It Hot,' which isn't really a musical, but I'm just such a sucker for old movies. I wouldn't want to ever tarnish one of them, or do a spot-on remake, but just do something light like that where I get to glide across the floor. I would be a very happy camper.
Dash Mihok
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
Lee Siegel
