Leonard Maltin Quotes
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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I know I look super young.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.
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I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.
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My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
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Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
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For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'
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People are getting patents on things that are too general.
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You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.
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Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.
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People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!
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When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
