“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.”
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“It's even better than everyone said. It just might be Marvel's best movie yet.”
Jim Starlin (1949) Comic creator
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Arin Paul (1980) Indian film director
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“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)