“Goodman: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Kael: I hate it. It is very creepy being imitated.”

—  Pauline Kael

Interview with Susan Goodman, Modern Maturity (March/April 1998) http://www.paulrossen.com/paulinekael/modernmaturity.html.
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