Leonard Maltin Quotes
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
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I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
