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Vincent Canby has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience…
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center…
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain…
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In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…
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Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,…
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There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…
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Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled…
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Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
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Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created…
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In the end, everything is a gag.
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Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex,…
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I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
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If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?
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In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…
— Vincent Canby
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Here's a good gag if you go swimming in a swamp and when you come out you're all covered with leeches. Just…
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If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, "Congratulations, it's a girl," I think…
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If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say…
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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception…
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