"No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't."

-- Edna Ferber

#Intelligent Quotes

“Banking is a branch of the information business.”

Source : 1986 Risk and Other Four-Letters Words.
“I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.”
“The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.”
“So to answer your question, Im not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.”
“I just make music based on what I believe.”
“How do we love all the children of all species for all time?”
“In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.”
“Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.”

Source : Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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