Classic Quotes - Page 18

• I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.

  Joselo Rangel

  Listening, Different, Sometimes

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I think we need to have stories about women that don't necessarily fit the trope of the classic woman, because they do exist. We have to show real life on TV and film. And we don't. We only see maybe 5 percent of what real people are really like. I mean, movies set in Los Angeles that don't have any minorities in them - how does that happen?

  Cristela Alonzo

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the forces of racial intolerance.A big part of me making the decision was how important the play is for the times that we live in. This is a classic. It's a masterpiece of American playwriting. It's about discrimination and it's about we Mexicans being a target for so many years.

  Demian Bichir

  War, Decision, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Nurse, Police

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I want to make a record that is a little more unsettling and maybe isn't as easily understood now." That just seemed more important, like, for me to make as an artist, than it was to make something to make people feel safe right away.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Artist, People, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how you learn how to do it. You don't learn how to write about jazz just from listening to jazz. You learn how to write by reading the great writers and how they worked, the great music critics.

  Gary Giddins

  Reading, Writing, Feelings

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page, and I go, "Hmmm. That's interesting." Second page, "Wow." By the fourth page, my heart started to beat, and I knew. It makes me cry, because I knew I had found a classic film. You just know when you get certain material.

  Beth Grant

  Heart, Night, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ever since Steve Bannon was demoted, and drama started playing out between Bannon and Jared Kushner and the firing of Comey and "Is he going to get impeached?" we have been trapped in a classic Survivor reality TV show, like, "Who's going to get voted off the island?" And this has every single news show enjoying ratings never seen before. And it physically pains them to talk about the stakes of this administration, whether it's health care or climate change or the deregulation of the financial sector or social security. None of it can compete with this reality show.

  Naomi Klein

  Pain, Drama, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did the original Robotron game back in 1982. To me it's still one of the classic 2D games as far as action and decisions per second, and kills per second, and explosions per second. It's super-frenetic and totally involving. There's been a lot of games since, a lot of Robotron sequels. A lot of them haven't even captured the magic of Robotron, much less moving things forward.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Moving, Decision, Magic

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want more and more, but then what restrains them and what restrained them in the past was a view of life in which one's satisfaction wasn't the most important thing, that you just, you needed enough and you could say, "Enough is enough." Maybe religion will get you there, maybe just classic moral philosophy, but you have to have some of that, or else you're always on the gravy train.

  Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

  Philosophy, Past, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment, the status quo, people who have held power, people that didn`t take on President Barack Obama to the extent he wanted to or the base wants to.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Party, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal." Right now I'm very into chic, classy looks. Chanel is one of my favorite brands; they really capture what a classic woman is.

  Stella Hudgens

  Risk, Trying, My Favorite

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany's shot somewhere else? It's classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they're just as important as everything else.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Character, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, People, Psycho

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't happen to like pretty things. I don't like pretty dresses. I like more attractive. I like people that look a little bit more offbeat. I don't like the classic pretty face. That doesn't mean it's not pretty or it's not wonderful, and most people don't agree with me, but that's the way I think.

  Iris Apfel

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the way the mainstream television industry worked. I just thought "The wire is so good that it's going to be a huge hit, and we'll get awards up the yin-yang forever." That's what I thought!

  Lance Reddick

  Intelligent, Interesting, Forever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start out, I never had, and I always felt and still feel the lack of it, so there's a lot of basic stuff that I just don't have a clue about.

  Margot Kidder

  People, Training, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

  Danzy Senna

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I go to a lot of independents and foreign films. I really try to keep up and see what there is to see. If you really love movies, it's the act of watching them that you really love. You can sit and watch a B-Western and have just as much fun watching that as you can a classic. That minute when the lights go down is the part where the magic happens, because you know this could be great. You're always kind of excited, like, "Here I am again in the church of movies, and Mass is starting.".

  Joe Dante

  Fun, Love You, Magic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

  Tori Amos

  Husband, Emerald Green, Emeralds

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• I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Records, Stores

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• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Crazy, Character, Cartoon

  "Jennifer Aniston on Moving on From 'Friends,' What it Would Take for Her to Return to TV". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Feet, Fancy

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

  Russell Baker

  Grandmother, Men, Self

  "Russell Baker: Gerald Boyd’s Book On Being Fired From The New York Times", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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