Leonard Maltin Quotes
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
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'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
