"An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad……" — Manohla Dargis
"An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful."
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17 Quotes by Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis has 17 quotes on this site.
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The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
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The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500)…
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That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a…
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In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.
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Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story…
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The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has…
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Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a…
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By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim…
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There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass.
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In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
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American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when…
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Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in…
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More Acquired Quotes
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one of 524 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
— Franklin P. Adams
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
— H. Rap Brown
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
— Smedley Butler
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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