"Anyone who watches a lot of television, or……" — Wesley Morris
"Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy."
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Wesley Morris
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12 Quotes by Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris has 12 quotes on this site.
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Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's…
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Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of…
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Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.
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In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell…
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Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold…
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Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything…
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Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
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Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
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Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil…
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There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the…
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In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the…
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