Richard Corliss Quotes

It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most summer movies. Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery.

Richard Corliss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1944 - April 23, 2015

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I really just got married for the material, to tell you the truth.

Anjelah Johnson

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We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Michael Franti

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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Jean Giraudoux

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What happened to me against Prescott didn't make Prescott a better fighter than me.

Amir Khan

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Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

Tom Coburn

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But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

Rob Delaney

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The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

Roy Moore

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I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

Martine McCutcheon

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You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

Christopher Cross

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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

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I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

Sydney Pollack

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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

Twyla Tharp

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