Leonard Maltin Quotes
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
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It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.
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Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
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I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.
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I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.
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Audiences deserve better.
