A Quote by Lisa Cholodenko
I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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