"As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip."

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Source : "Read Playboy … for the Interviews". Interview with David Sheff, www.slate.com. October 1995.

Gene Siskel

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.”
“When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl”

Source : Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf
“Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.”
“I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.”
“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.”
“Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.”
“Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.”
“To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.”

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