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1205 Critic Quotes

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Common Love Occasional Passion
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Easy Fake Inner Nothing
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Comprehend Eye Mind Only
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Authors Because Cats Creatures
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Believe Gift Gives Greatest
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Mere Opera World
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Forever Gallery Never Playing
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Again Age Book Building
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Because Become Circumstances Extraordinary
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Been Did Die Lucky
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Call Happen Inner Luck
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Humor Lies Love Much
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Childhood Happy Life Many
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Adventures Canada Encouraged Large
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Also Difficult Himself His
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Attacked Dog Every Fewer
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Banker Between Canada Country
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
English Feel Make People
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Look Most Movies Us
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every Film Great New
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Confused Emotions Intellect Lie
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Action Desires Feed Go
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All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

Become Critics Discussions Get
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Argue Both Celebrate Differ
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Fact Going Most People
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

America Class Film Invisible
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

American Begin Class Feel
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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President

Bush Elected President Think
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

More Most People Prejudice
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

Beyond Categorize Get Idea
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I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Boost Criticism Enormous Film
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Fine Glad Kind Me
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Been Comedy Drop Gate
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Better Get Hearing Hollywood
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Absorb Attention More Movies
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

About Academy Image Paranoid
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Ambition Drowned Get Just
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
Filmmaking Lot Conscious
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Am Bored Celebrities Celebrity
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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Bad Enough Good Long
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The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Because Being Change God
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Camels Castles Clouds Like
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