Leonard Maltin Quotes
While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
