Leonard Maltin Quotes
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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My health is fine.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.
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And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
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Stop the incitement in your media and your schools.Stop naming public squares and athletic teams after suicide bombers.And come to the negotiating table when you have prepared your people to forego hatred and renounce terrorism - and Israel will embrace you.Until that day, there can be no peace with Hamas. Peace at any price isn't peace; it's surrender.
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First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
