"It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. Miss March is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages."

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Source : "Miss March" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. March 13, 2009.

Stephanie Zacharek

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“So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."”
“Winners aren't popular, losers often are.”
“I didn't want it to be this way." "Yes, you did," she said, "because it is." "I just want to be with someone normal," he said. "I just want to have a normal life." "Excuse me," she said. "You're a little crazy," he said. "You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.”

Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.29, Penguin
“Snowman wakes before dawn.”
“I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.”
“The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.”
“Itâ€™s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted youâ€™d feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately thereâ€™s an easier way and itâ€™s our feelings. Our feelings let us know what weâ€™re thinking.”
“My people must drink beer.”

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