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Pauline Kael [1919-2001] American
Rank: 103
Critic, Film critic


Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic.

Chance, Motivational, Movies, Patience

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Chance, Motivational
101
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
102
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. Movies
103
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
104
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
105
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
106
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
107
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
108
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
109
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
110
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
111
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
112
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
113
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art. Patience
114

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