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Tom Shales Quotes

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 3, 1948

Topics

Home People Long Come And Go Go See

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

John Ciardi

Day You Will Happen Up Get

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

Mel Gibson

Fear Politics Religion Anger Me You

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

John Updike

Myself Poetry Look Say Write Over

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Good Hate Value Ideas Book Think

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Work Family Hard Work Future Time

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.

Lotte Lehmann

Me Wings You More Always Than

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Ludwig von Mises

Men Fighting Well-Being Own Because

It's not so much that I'd like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I'm always playing down, but I guess it's good because it means I've got a longer life in my acting career.

Julia Sawalha

Life Good Age Character Someone

I don't like message movies either.

Don Cheadle

Movies Like Message Either

When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

Deb Caletti

Mother Home Writing Year Look Young

You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.

Swara Bhaskar

Experience Compassion Politics Look

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Sylvester Stallone

Action Revenge Interesting You Get