Andrew Sarris Quotes
Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
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I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.
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The Thou encounters me by grace - it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.
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I am a man of the people, bred amongst them, and it has been the greatest joy of my life to have had some part in fighting the battles of the class from whom I am proud to have sprung.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
