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'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
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When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
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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.
