Judith Crist Quotes

#1. Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

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#2. The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.

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#3. The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

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#4. Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

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#5. All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

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#6. Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic ...

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#7. It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

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#8. 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.

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#9. In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

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#10. The critics who love are the severe ones ... we know our relationship must be based on honesty.

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#11. Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.

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