"Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts."

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Source : "Judith Crist, a Blunt and Influential Film Critic, Dies at 90". Interview With Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. August 7, 2012.

Judith Crist

#Heart Quotes #Caring Quotes #Circles Quotes

“I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.”
“I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 25, 2016
“Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.”
“My mother was the center of the family.”
“To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.”
“I used to want to be a computer programmer when I was younger. We got an Apple II Plus when I was, like, 11 and I wrote programs and BASIC on that, like I think a lot of people did, but I have no idea how to program in the current languages at all.”

Source : "Chris Parnell on Farrah Fawcett and being mistaken for Chris Kattan". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2015.
“I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.”
“Success is a process that never ends.”

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