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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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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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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Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.
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I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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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.
