"For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion."

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Pauline Kael

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“One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesting source of life and nourishment but it also has a feeling dimension: God as compassionate Spirit feels for us as a mother feels for the children of her womb. Spirit feels the suffering of the world and participates in it. . . .”
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
“The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.”
“The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!”
“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”
“I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.”

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“If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.”
“Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.”

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