Sunday, October 12, 2025

Quips and Quotations (Uncommonly Good Edition)

 

1946-2025

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

--Diane Keaton (née Hall)









 

14 comments:

  1. I was so sad to hear this news. Nice tribute!

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  2. Great tribute to a fine actress who will be missed!

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  3. RIP.
    She aged v. beautifully in some recent stuff, so quite surprising.
    She absolutely shined though opposite Al Pacino in The Godfather.
    A bit sad to hear of her passing.

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    1. She was in all three Godfather movies, Liam.

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    2. Gosh, I haven't seen those movies in a while now kirk.
      Although they are classics, I can't say I enjoy them, all the lying, and cheating. I remember the bare-faced way he lied to his wife at the end about turning a new leaf, and she believed him because she loved him.

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    3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmKRk2AIJI

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  4. Great quote - something we would all do well to heed. Mediocrity seems far too common of late.

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    1. David, Diane wouldn't have fit in very well in Washington D.C. these days.

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