Gene Siskel Quotes

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

Gene Siskel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1946 - February 20, 1999

Topics

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No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

Jennifer Saunders

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I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different place. And I'm really proud of our performance in the studio on that one.

Matthew Ramsey

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If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

Michael Ignatieff

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I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

John Wooden

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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

John Singleton

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I love being an idiot, and acting lets you be an idiot.

Travis Fimmel

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Hollywood has to diversify.

Roger Ross Williams

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I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Ronnie Dunn

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Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Mary Roach

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When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.

Jason Momoa

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Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

Derek Cianfrance

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