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• Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.

  Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers

• I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”

  Steve Martinborn 1945

• You know what your problem is? It’s that you haven’t seen enough movies⁠—all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

  Steve Martinborn 1945

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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