All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Quote by Clive James

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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

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Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.