Michiko Kakutani Quotes

If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.

Michiko Kakutani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1955

Topics

IgnoranceVillainPrejudiceSheLike

Often when we reach great heights in life, we forget who brought us there. Well, I have not.

Jesse White

LifeGreatReachHeightsForgetUs

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Joey Lauren Adams

MeLooking BackLookingThinkActing

It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.

Melvyn Bragg

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The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

StrengthHomeMenSteelIndustry

Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I am thankful to God for that.

Amruta Khanvilkar

GodThankfulDanceI AmIdentityMe

I would love to wrestle at WrestleMania! And who knows, if the time is ever right and the moment calls for it, it would be a dream come true for me.

Stephanie McMahon

LoveTimeMomentMeDreamTrue

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Stephanie Zimbalist

WantOatsSowSown

Love doesn't care how much money you have. It doesn't care who your parents are. It doesn't care if you're gay, straight, or transgender.

Rumer Willis

LoveMoneyParentsCareYouGay

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Liza Minnelli

ParentsGrowing UpNobodyGrowingUp

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Joss Whedon

StoryThinkDecisionsYouTelevision

It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.

Jason Blum

FunnyTimeHardSameScaryMovie

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.

Joseph de Maistre

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