"For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society."

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Pauline Kael

#Light Quotes #People Quotes #Strange Quotes

“I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.”
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.”
“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”
“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.”
“When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.”
“Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.”
“I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.”
“There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”

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