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In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.


Wim Wenders


#also #america #become #being #consumerism

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.


Joan Didion


#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.


K. Eric Drexler


#critics #else #encountered #few #having

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.


Garth Ennis


#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.


Edward Everett


#apparent #battle #could #doubt #encounter

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.


Pierce Brosnan


#because #clue #consequently #counters #crap

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.


Warren Farrell


#earn #entrepreneurs #found #i #less

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.


George H. W. Bush


#eight #encountered #his #i #learned

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.


Stanislav Grof


#authentic #convincing #dead #death #deathbed

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!


Andrew Gross


#bottom #california #central #chance #charles






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