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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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.
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When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
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I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.
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Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die.
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People don't buy technology, they buy content...You have got to have content that is married to (technology).
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Audiences deserve better.
