"The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart)."

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Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.562, Library of America

Manny Farber

#Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.”
“The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.”
“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds”
“For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.”
“There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.”
“The Best way to help the world is to help someone!”

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