Top 15 Vincent Canby Quotes
#1. Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
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#2. Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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#3. It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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#4. Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.
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#5. Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
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#6. Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
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#7. The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.
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#8. His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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#9. Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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#10. We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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#11. Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music ...
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#12. When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.
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#13. She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
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#14. Lives - even the most carefully managed - are voids filled with echoes
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#15. Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.
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