Stephen Hunter quote: "The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't."

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside wa...
STEPHEN HUNTER

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a cultu...
STEPHEN HUNTER

The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people ...
STEPHEN HUNTER

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by ...
STEPHEN HUNTER

'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid Am...
STEPHEN HUNTER

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world an...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give ...
STEPHEN HUNTER

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, taste...
STEPHEN HUNTER

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes ge...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhe...
STEPHEN HUNTER

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother th...
STEPHEN HUNTER

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered t...
STEPHEN HUNTER

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's call...
STEPHEN HUNTER

The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of i...
STEPHEN HUNTER

The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defini...
STEPHEN HUNTER

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
TAB HUNTER

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
TAB HUNTER

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up wit...
TAB HUNTER

I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
TAB HUNTER

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I h...
TAB HUNTER

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a ...
TAB HUNTER

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go ...
TAB HUNTER

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. ...
TAB HUNTER

I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
TAB HUNTER

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
TAB HUNTER

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spa...
TAB HUNTER

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
TAB HUNTER

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
TAB HUNTER

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Pag...
TAB HUNTER

A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had...
TAB HUNTER

People believe what they want to believe.
TAB HUNTER

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity cont...
TAB HUNTER

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
IAN HUNTER

It was a labor of love and they did really well.
IAN HUNTER

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
IAN HUNTER

Tell the truth.
IAN HUNTER

I am blessed beyond belief.
HUNTER HAYES

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my b...
HUNTER HAYES

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, bea...
FAITH HUNTER

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no id...
RACHEL HUNTER

But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actress...
RACHEL HUNTER

Anyone can look beautiful.
RACHEL HUNTER

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty m...
RACHEL HUNTER

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
RACHEL HUNTER

Love is just chemistry.
RACHEL HUNTER

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk t...
RACHEL HUNTER

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you...
RACHEL HUNTER

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, th...
RACHEL HUNTER

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how ...
RACHEL HUNTER

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
RACHEL HUNTER

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
RACHEL HUNTER

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I ...
RACHEL HUNTER

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
RACHEL HUNTER

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
RACHEL HUNTER

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
RACHEL HUNTER

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It...
RACHEL HUNTER

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would ...
RACHEL HUNTER

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be mono...
RACHEL HUNTER

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were una...
RACHEL HUNTER

I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot ...
RACHEL HUNTER

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, ...
RACHEL HUNTER

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
RACHEL HUNTER

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm no...
RACHEL HUNTER

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
RACHEL HUNTER

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-ev...
FAITH HUNTER

Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued,...
FAITH HUNTER

I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing ...
JOHN HUNTER

I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older,...
HUNTER HAYES

Oh, yes?” Lizardstripe mewed. “What a miracle. If I’d known toms could have kits, I would have...
ERIN HUNTER

This would never have happened in my day,” Archeye commented from where he sat in front of the eld...
ERIN HUNTER

Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network mo...
HOLLY HUNTER

He was a great kid. They were both great friends.
ALAN HUNTER

We are asking gamers to dare to be different in creating their dream PC case. This mod kit promotion...
ALAN HUNTER

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backwards market. In most markets jobs come first a...
ALAN HUNTER

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backward market. In most markets, jobs come first a...
ALAN HUNTER

This market is one of the wealthiest in the nation.
ALAN HUNTER

[MGE is also launching a lifetime warranty program on its external power supplies.] With extreme gam...
ALAN HUNTER

Whatever the PC case or power supply, the XG line extends the life of a PC to give the extreme gamer...
ALAN HUNTER

Extreme gamers take notice. Our new XG line combines the most unique styling and the latest advances...
ALAN HUNTER

Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and ...
TORII HUNTER

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country...
HUNTER HAYES

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want ...
ROBERT HUNTER

It definitely makes it harder. The racial issues are hard to ignore, ... We all agree that what happ...
ADAM HUNTER

See,” he said playfully, and arched his eyebrows. “Admit it.” He moved in. His mouth ame so cl...
C.C. HUNTER

It will definitely be the most fun they have ever had in their life.
ADAM HUNTER

The church is the center of the black community, ... The church provides day care, education and hou...
ADAM HUNTER

One big issue is the faith-based initiative,
ADAM HUNTER

This is definitely the highlight for me so far (in my career) because it's the first final I've won.
ADAM HUNTER

It was pretty nice to slip down there and kick a couple of goals,
ADAM HUNTER

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in ...
CHARLIE HUNTER

You cannot live with a paw in each world.
ERIN HUNTER

The time has come for Firepaw to be made a warrior.
ERIN HUNTER

[Fireheart]mewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greys...
ERIN HUNTER

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pre...
HOLLY HUNTER

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.
CATFISH HUNTER

We all have our flaws, but we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
ERIN HUNTER

Fox dung!
ERIN HUNTER

Spirits of cats who have gone before,” Moony mewed, “I am sorry I am the only cat left of what w...
ERIN HUNTER

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that posi...
KRISTIN HUNTER

I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger...
FAITH HUNTER

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and f...
HUNTER HAYES

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion b...
HUNTER HAYES

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu...
HUNTER HAYES

Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What end...
HUNTER HAYES

People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international accla...
HOLLY HUNTER

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
HUNTER HAYES

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to pl...
HOLLY HUNTER

The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New ...
HOLLY HUNTER

I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, ...
HUNTER HAYES

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.
HUNTER TYLO

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black...
KIM HUNTER

I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or ...
TORII HUNTER

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
Graystripe:...Drowning?
S...
ERIN HUNTER

There was stop-loss selling in fairly illiquid market conditions. Silver has come down on the back o...
BERNARD HUNTER

Following a period of rapid price appreciation it is not unusual to see physical buyers withdraw and...
BERNARD HUNTER

There's been a lot of selling and profit taking across all asset classes, actually. Oil is weaker, g...
BERNARD HUNTER

The original fall was in response to the trade numbers and the strong U.S. dollar.
BERNARD HUNTER

There was some more talk around during the day that the Securities and Exchange Commission is over i...
BERNARD HUNTER

The fact that you get this announcement of a strike at what is basically the world's largest silver ...
BERNARD HUNTER

Really, the investment off-take is continuing unabated. It's crazy. There's a lot of traditionally p...
BERNARD HUNTER

I think the market certainly positioned itself for that and as we got closer to that $10 mark, it ju...
BERNARD HUNTER

She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't ju...
C.C. HUNTER

I will be loyal to my Clan above everything. What I want doesn't matter. The Clan must always com...
ERIN HUNTER

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