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" I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief. "
Sylvester Stallone
Special
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" I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. "
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