#gimmick

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#feel #gimmick #hit #i #i feel

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. ↗

— Cornel West

#cheap #clever #distraction #gimmicks #mass

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#acting #gimmicks #good #i #know

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#bing crosby #crosby #gimmick #him #his

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? ↗

— Whitney Houston

#gimmick #god #me #other #sing

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#box #box office #dropped #dry #gimmick

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#appearance #band #big #cultivated #gimmick

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#corporate #days #false #financed #gets