The 8th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1955, honored the best films of 1954.
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“Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
—John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)
“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)