Top 23 Vincent Canby Quotes
#1. Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.
Gerard Arpey
#2. Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
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#3. 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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#4. It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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#5. It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.
Philippe Aries
#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
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#9. 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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#10. He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
H.W. Brands
#11. L.A. fashion is like lip injections. That confuses me. That's become not just a thing. It's become fashion, part of your outfit. But hey, to each his own.
Kenny Wormald
#12. His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
Vincent Canby
#13. Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!
John Burgon
#14. Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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#15. We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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#16. 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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#17. Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.
Elizabeth George
#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. And I remember that I have come to bring you back, in the full ambition that it is you who will bring all of us back. What have you discovered here, Shuri?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#21. Lives - even the most carefully managed - are voids filled with echoes
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#23. 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.
Vincent Canby