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• The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.

  Callum Keith Rennie
  British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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• To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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• There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

  Theodor W. Adorno
  German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• advertisements
• provocative
• punctuating
• duplication
• ideologies
• authentic

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