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- To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the…
- Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front,…
- I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?
- My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of…
- It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet…
- Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley...…
- Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all…
- It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.
- There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
- I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love…
- From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes.…
- Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow…
- Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
- I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So…
- I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift…
- You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look…
- Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to…
- The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman…
- There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we…
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