"A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target."

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Gene Siskel

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“Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.”
“I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.”
“Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.”
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
“In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.”

Source : Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.102, Harvard University Press
“An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.”
“When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.”

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