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To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

Judith Crist

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Judith Crist
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: May 22
Died: 2012
Died: August 7
Film Critic
Journalist
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Education
Gall
Maybe
Critic
Five
Critics
Three
Parts
Two
Intelligence
Equal
Percent
Style
Egomania

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