"Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?"

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Pauline Kael

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“There is a big difference you see between privately letting someone know that you're displeased, whether they've done something they may not be aware of, and just rudeness - and you do not have to tolerate rudeness, by any means.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.
“Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21
“The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.”
“If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.”
“So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.”
“As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.”
“If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.”

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