"Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity."

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Source : "Norbit (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

James Berardinelli

#Principles Quotes #Needs Quotes #Hilarity Quotes

“I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.”
“Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.”
“Thereâ€™s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.”
“Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.”
“This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under the moon wind rising and falling wind with many clouds trees in the night wind.”
“Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.”

Source : "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.
“For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?”

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