"Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it……" — Vincent Canby
"Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not."
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17 Quotes by Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby has 17 quotes on this site.
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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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Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is…
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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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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 Almost Always Quotes
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm…
— Albert Camus
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
— Roger Angell
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
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Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and…
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
— Jean Cocteau
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
— Luc de Clapiers
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