#review

I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me . . . just like everyone else. ↗

— Laura Bickle

#freedom #laine-s-fave #freedom

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life-lessons #soul #life

sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years w/out feeling anything new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder ↗

— Elizabeth Funderbirk

#author #book #contemporary #debut #drama

At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They will get for their money 34 pages of permanent value. These 34 pages tell of a massacre happening in a little Spanish town in the early days of the Civil War...Mr. Hemingway: please publish the massacre scene separately, and then forget For Whom the Bell Tolls; please leave stories of the Spanish Civil War to Malraux... ↗

— Commonweal

#money

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#better #break #coming #could #divisive

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. ↗

— E. B. White

#curtain #fall #find #leaves #play

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#both #expect #i #luck #may

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#assumed #constitutional #curb #decline #efforts

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#around #easy #film #first #first time