"Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect."

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Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.88, Library of America

Manny Farber

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“Nothing screws up a sÃ©ance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas”
“I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.”
“In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.”
“Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.”
“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.”
“I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.”
“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”

Source : Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
“It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself”

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