Classic Quotes - Page 9

• When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Parent, Classic Movie, Raised

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• The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

  Wendell Pierce

  Thinking, Wire, Proud

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• It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t Thelma and Louise prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

  Robin Quivers

  Character, Car, Want

  "Women in Film" by Robin Quivers, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.

  Matthew Rhys

  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

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• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  Haley Reinhart

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Soul

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• Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

  Jason Segel

  Heart, Special, Bears

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• I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

  Jessie Ware

  Want, Feminine

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• I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

  Allison Williams

  Simple, Jeans, Everyday

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• I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Father, School

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• I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

  Daniel Silva

  War, Reading, Russian History

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• Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

  French Montana

  New York, Men, Cities

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• Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Years, Suits You

  "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Shoes, Made

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• I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Classic Rock

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Taken, Heart, Sea

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• The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

  William Friedkin

  Legacy, Classic Films, Interest

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

  Sam Mendes

  Play, Chekhov, Novel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors.

  Clive Owen

  Real, Doctors, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."

  Dianna Agron

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Musical

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.

  David McCullough

  Regret, Latin, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

  Larry Wall

  Running, Interesting, Musician

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

  Rita Dove

  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Black, Mind

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• Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Important, Boring, Accepting

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