"We are drawn to our television sets each……" — Vincent Canby
"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
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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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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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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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More Accident Quotes
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
— Bono
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
— Kim Alexis
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