Jay Carr quotes
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“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”
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“Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.”
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“Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.”
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“One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?”
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“[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.”
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“[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.”
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“Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.”
-- Jay Carr
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
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“Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.”
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Source : "On Doing the Right Thing". "The American Mercury" Magazine, 1925.
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“The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.”
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“The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.”
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“in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.”
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