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Pauline Kael Inspirational Quotes (50)

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Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.
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The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.
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If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?
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Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
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I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.
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For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.
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Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
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Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.
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The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new
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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
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I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
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Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.
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A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
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in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.
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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
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Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.
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Her only flair is in her nostrils.
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a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.
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Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being wised up knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.
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Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
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Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
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