Rob Sheffield Quotes

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

Rob Sheffield

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To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.

Joe Carnahan

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You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how do you do that?

Andrew Shaffer

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Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

Andre Braugher

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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

John Masefield

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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

Anish Kapoor

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When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

John Tesh

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I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

Amy Winehouse

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My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.

Steve King

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When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.

Steven Adler

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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Robert Casey

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Oh, I think Scarlett Johansson is a terrific actress. I think she's just marvelous.

Rita Moreno

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