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Sonny Liston Quotes

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Sonny Liston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1932 - December 30, 1970

Topics

Good People Bad Boxing Pay See

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

Joel Edgerton

Play Aggression Notes Easier Than

'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'

John Lahr

America Drama Glass Angels Two Era

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

John Malkovich

Life You Go Ahead Real Real Life

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

Anish Kapoor

Artist Content Pursue Role

I'm taking dance lessons and getting stuck in. It's a great way of keeping fit, and it's obviously a big part of Bollywood movies, so I need to learn.

Amy Jackson

Great Dance Learn Movies Way Need

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

Steven Soderbergh

Mind Cinema Movies Seen Fine Venue

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

Stewart O'Nan

Creative World Language Will Emotion

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

Shirley Temple

Work People Me Know Actress Most

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

Tracy Morgan

Life Live Great Time Night My Life

All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.

Bret Michaels

Life Day My Life Always Been Taken

I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.

Susan Hill

Good Child Never Write Anything Who

For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.

Shahzia Sikander

Future Best Focus Me Control Year