"Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher."

-- James Berardinelli

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“When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.”
“The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.”
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
“Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
“Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.”
“If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.”

Source : Helen Dunmore (1988). “The Raw Garden”, Dufour Editions
“People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.”
“If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.”

Source : "Emma Thompson Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Her Preparation Process, Getting Input from Richard Sherman, Terrence Malick’s VOYAGE OF TIME, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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