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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.
Pauline Kael
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Pauline Kael
Age: 82 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 19
Died: 2001
Died: September 3
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a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
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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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I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
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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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What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
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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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