"[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it ..."

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Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

Penelope Gilliatt

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“I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on.”
“Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.”

Source : "Art Talk with Roxane Gay". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. March 31, 2014.
“I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.”
“It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.”
“It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.”
“A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.”
“Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.”
“The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.”

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