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Shane Black Quotes

I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 16, 1961

Topics

Hate Professional Movies Worst Made

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

Jesse Eisenberg

Family School People Friends Help

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Think You Down Strike First Middle

Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

Life People You Meet Streets Some

As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.

Good Youth Reading Summer Birth Did

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

Good People World Explain Tell Just

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

Sad People Me Wake Up Feel Media

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Power Democracy Help Addiction Oil

When I retire, I'm going to go home and say, 'I played for what?' You know, if I don't win anything.

Home Win You Go Know Say

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Women Men Book Attention You Stop

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Friendship Time Fly World Spark New

I live a very leisurely life. When I do work, it's not work: it's great fun and exciting and fresh. New, wonderful, talented people. It's great pleasure and great fun.

Cloris Leachman

Life Work Live Great Fun People

I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

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