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Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Satires

On the modern (at that time) Roman citizen.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

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Are you not entertained?

Gladiator

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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Quoted in Picture Parade

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Hitchcock, Alfred. "Picture Parade." Interviewed by Robert Robinson. BBC, 5 Jul. 1950.

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Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

Roger Ebert

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Ebert, Roger. "A Depression-Era Story of Old Age, Tough and Level in its Gaze." rogerebert.com, 11 Feb. 2010, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/make-way-for-tomorrow-1937.

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Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company.

William Moulton Marston

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Marston, William Moulton. Quoted in "Professor to Cure Scenarios with Wrong Emotional Content: Dabbled in Movies While at Harvard; Now Sought by Hollywood with Offer of Favorable Contract" written by Henry W. Levy. New York University News, 8 Jan. 1929.

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