Andrew Sarris Quotes

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Andrew Sarris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1928 - June 20, 2012

Topics

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Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

Andrew Young

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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Max Born

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Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.

Andy Serkis

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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardner

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'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.

Tom Morello

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I believe in emotional branding.

Roustam Tariko

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I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

Michael Sata

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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

Lou Holtz

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My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

Judd Nelson

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I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Chuck Palahniuk

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When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

Antonio Damasio

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Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

Peter York

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