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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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

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

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

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