"Casablanca is back on the big screen in a new print and looks and sounds better as time goes by. It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it."

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Source : "Casablanca" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

Philip French

#Laughing Quotes #Sound Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.”
“Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.”

Source : "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.”
“Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.”
“Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.”
“In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are...just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.”
“It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.”
“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.”

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