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A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Also Belongs Comic Comic Strip Curious Elders Intimate Laugh Look Made Parents Peer Read Really Strip Then Thing Things Through Were Whether Windows Wonder You Young Your

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The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Before Between Brief Comic Connects David Director Dots Encounter Lean Lost Love Melodrama Mood Movies New Richard Standards Sunrise Thoroughly Three Translation Yearning

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Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adolescent Angst Better Cohesion Comic Contradictions Defined Distance Emotional Girl High Hughes Intelligence Investment John Keeping Later Mean Movies Narrative Scene Shines Strength Teenagers Than Though Understanding Which Whole Works

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Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Combination Comic Exuberance He His Instrument Like Mastered Older Specific Than Voice Years

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In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Also Apology Appeared Been Comic Daniel Film Graphic Had Justin Novelist Out Plot Series Short Short Film Turned Tweet

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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

~Elvis Presley

Topics: Always Believing Books Boy Comic Comic Books Dream Grew Hero Movies Myself Saw Up

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I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

~Emily Perkins

Topics: Comedy Comic Good Good Sense Like Love Pretty Pretty Good Really Sense Think Timing Try I Think

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I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

~Eric Idle

Topics: Baseball Baseball Player Being Comic Doing Fame Hall Like Limelight Longer Love Nice Now Old Older Person Player Soccer Spot Thing You I Love

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We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

~Erich Hoeber

Topics: Books Comic Comic Books Despite Doing Fact Fun Living Make Really Way Would

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It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.

~Erik Griffin

Topics: Comic Every Funny Like Lot Male Meet Them You

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