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Manny Farber has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her…
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t…
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I have a great love of the actual.
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There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space…
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing…
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here…
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Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence…
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who…
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at…
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…
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Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio…
— Paul Galanti
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Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or…
— Unknown Author
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health…
— Waverley Root
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[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam…
— David Frum
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…
— Manny Farber
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I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
— Rick Perlstein
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