"In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars."

-- Pauline Kael

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“The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”
“A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.”
“I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless.”
“At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.”
“I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.”
“Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.”
“Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.”
“Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.”

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