bell hooks Quotes

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1952

Topics

TimeMirrorCultureCriticismBody

I didn't grow up beautiful.

Jennifer Flavin

BeautifulGrowGrow UpUp

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

Amber Valletta

PollutionDoneFuelStateNative

What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.

Tracy K. Smith

LifeGoodPoetryMeBelieveThink

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.

Tracy Letts

MovingActionTransitionPictures

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

Michael Scheuer

PeaceWarThinkBetterAmerican

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

Luis Gutierrez

MeImmigrantsTaxSalesFirstTaxes

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Lucinda Williams

FeelSomeoneTogethernessEveryone

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

Condola Rashad

PassionFirstPianoPlayingStarted

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Bob Keeshan

LifeStrengthGoodChildrenPeople

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Peter R. Grant

SongLinesAlongPaternalMating

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

Peter Steele

MusicNegativeThinkI ThinkSucks

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

Peter Falk

CharacterTwoWithinAnythingIdea

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