#olisquotefile — Public Fediverse posts
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Fom Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses - Chris Nashawaty
> JOHN SAYLES: “Roger [Corman] hired more female directors than anybody else. It wasn’t because he was a dyed-in-the-wool feminist. It was just if they had talent and they were cheap, let’s try ’em!”
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From Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses - Chris Nashawaty
> [Roger Corman] did that first for [Ingmar Bergman's] Cries and Whispers. He dubbed the picture, and he played it in drive-ins.
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The Last King of Osten Ard - #TadWilliams
> Likimeya and I did not talk very often, but when we did our conversations often began like this, with her explaining things to me as though I were witless. To be fair, she spoke this way to most of her elders.
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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - #TadWilliams
> Simon said nothing, saving his strength so he could more fully appreciate his misery.
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The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
> At that time Frodo was still in his *tweens*, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
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Assassin's Quest - #RobinHobb
> She sat there most of the night, knitting loudly and peering at him disapprovingly.
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Men At Arms - #TerryPratchett
> Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone’s character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore […] it should be possible to mould someone’s character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head[.]
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Deep Secret (1997)- #DianaWynneJones
> Then they went swaying off – they both had shiny black boots on with six-inch heels. I wondered how they could walk at all, in those tight black leather skirts as well.
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> Nick said, “I know one of them has to be a man! Can you tell which?”
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> “Darned if I know!” I said. “They’re both so beautiful. But that baby’s surely having a weird upbringing!”
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> Nick said, in a vague way, “All upbringings are weird.”