"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

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Source : Newsweek, December 24, 1973.

Pauline Kael

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“Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance.”

Source : "Government Comes Under Further Budget Pressure". www.irishtimes.com. October 23, 2008.
“I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.”

Source : Letter on the China Root, quoted in "Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564" by Charles Donald O'Malley, 1964.
“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”
“Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.”
“The only thing I'll say, and I'm sure everyone says this, is stick with it. I'm not shy about telling people about the fact that my dream was to go to USC film school when I was growing up in New Jersey. I got rejected five times. You just keep going, keep going, keep going.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.”
“The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.”
“Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.”

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