"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right."
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Source: Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”
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