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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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
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If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.
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Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.
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Audiences deserve better.
