“Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.”
Review http://www.reelviews.net/movies/r/robin_tights.html of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
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American film critic 1967Related quotes
“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”
Original: (it) Molte volte la vita mette a dura prova; se non sai giocartela bene, hai perso prima di iniziare.
Source: prevale.net
“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
Interview with Nabokov http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt_with-big-pictures.html conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967.
Source: Strong Opinions
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
Context: Besides each one of us working individually, all of us have got to work together. We cannot possibly do our best work as a nation unless all of us know how to act in combination as well as how to act each individually for himself. The acting in combination can take many forms, but of course its most effective form must be when it comes in the shape of law —that is, of action by the community as a whole through the lawmaking body.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.
Hard Headed Woman
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
