"Confession: When I went to see The Empire……" — Vincent Canby
"Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank."
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17 Quotes by Vincent Canby
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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