"Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn."

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Source : "2 Movie Gems Amid A Lot Of Hollywood Hooey". www.wnd.com. July 06, 2007.

Ilana Mercer

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“John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.”
“Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.”
“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.”
“Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.”
“Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.”

Source : Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)
“Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.”
“I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.”
“I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.”

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