Pauline Kael Quotes
De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.
Quotes to Explore
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I will keep working hard!
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.
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I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
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De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.
