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There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past. ↗

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

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COWBOYS, just like the word says. ↗

— John Wayne

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Sex was the first dove. ↗

— Parker Tyler

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Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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People go to the movies instead of moving. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass, ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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Books are truer than movies. ↗

— Adam Levin

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You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie. ↗

— Dan Chaon

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I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

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There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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