Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Pauline Kael
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  2. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day. - Anthony T.Hincks

  4. Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night. - Anthony T. Hincks

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More Quotes By Pauline Kael
  1. The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

  2. An artist must either give up art or develop.

  3. A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care,...

  4. Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

  5. ...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything–even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.

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