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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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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Oh you're a wrestler now? Remember I'm the black belt in ju-jitsu.
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Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.
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I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.
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Like liberals, anarchists want freedom; like socialists, anarchists want equality. But we are not satisfied by liberalism alone of by socialism alone. Freedom without equality means that the poor and the weak are less free than the rich and strong, and equality without freedom means that we are all slaves together. Freedom and equality are not contradictory, but complementary.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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Audiences deserve better.
