Banal Quotes
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All my life I`ve been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chan...
Luis Bunuel
Keywords: account :: all :: and :: another :: banal :: been :: blanks :: by :: chance :: could :: courage :: destiny :: do :: fill :: find :: for :: harassed :: how :: if :: in :: is :: leave :: life :: makes :: more :: my :: not :: only :: our :: questions :: rage :: something :: that :: the :: this :: to :: understand :: ve :: way :: we :: why :: youSource: imdb.com -
[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
Keywords: always :: and :: banal :: by :: certainly :: could :: dialogue :: due :: entirely :: fact :: fellow :: glamor :: he :: hero :: his :: is :: match :: modern :: not :: on :: pos :: rudolf :: screen :: splendid :: that :: the :: to :: unhampered :: unique :: valentino :: very :: was :: whoSource: imdb.com -
[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
Keywords: always :: and :: banal :: by :: certainly :: could :: dialogue :: due :: entirely :: fact :: fellow :: glamor :: he :: hero :: his :: is :: match :: modern :: not :: on :: pos :: rudolf :: screen :: splendid :: that :: the :: to :: unhampered :: unique :: valentino :: very :: was :: whoSource: imdb.com -
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
Edward Norton
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[On how much he disliked working on Star Wars (1977) and his attempts to encourage George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan Kenobi]: And he agreed with me. What I didn`t tell him was that I just couldn`t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I`d had eno...
Alec Guinness
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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Guy Debord
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To some, the `50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
Annette Funicello
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There`s almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy
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All my life I`ve been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chan...
Ashley McFarland
Keywords: account :: all :: and :: another :: banal :: been :: blanks :: by :: chance :: could :: courage :: destiny :: do :: fill :: find :: for :: harassed :: how :: if :: in :: is :: leave :: life :: makes :: more :: my :: not :: only :: our :: questions :: rage :: something :: that :: the :: this :: to :: understand :: ve :: way :: we :: why :: youSource: thinkexist.com -
There`s a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various l...
Anna Quindlen
Keywords: about :: and :: around :: at :: banal :: book :: by :: certain :: conversation :: cr :: derivative :: from :: goes :: have :: head :: in :: its :: kind :: literary :: new :: now :: of :: parties :: rears :: say :: sometimes :: the :: there :: time :: to :: underedited :: various :: word :: york :: youSubject: Books QuotesSource: quotationspage.com -
There`s a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various l...
Anna Quindlen
Keywords: about :: and :: around :: at :: banal :: book :: by :: certain :: conversation :: cr :: derivative :: from :: goes :: have :: head :: in :: its :: kind :: literary :: new :: now :: of :: parties :: rears :: say :: sometimes :: the :: there :: time :: to :: underedited :: various :: word :: york :: youSubject: Books QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
