Quotes about american-critic
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What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing. Joel Siegel
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Laws are changed all the time, but the legislature primarily makes the law.
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Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch
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Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television. Roger Ebert
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Roger and I are now in our 20th year and I think people tune in because they know that for better or for worse, these are our opinions. Gene Siskel
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If you run - if you give the gavel to a lawyer, they'll take it.
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If you're starting to think of that one guy at the table as your archrival because he's beaten you three times in the last hour, remember: you're not Spider-Man, and he's not the Green Goblin. Richard Roeper
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If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
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If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.
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If you litigate, you're entitled to litigate and you're entitled to have the issues explored completely.
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If you've got a case that's due out or you have a trial starting Monday morning, and you haven't read the file, you haven't done the homework and done the research, you ought to be in there Saturday and if necessary Sunday. That goes with the territory.
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In the last few years there's been an explosion of bands that flame to the sky with one huge release - only to burn out just as quickly.
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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us. Joe Bob Briggs
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The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
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A gross and palpable error of the era that is just closing has been the confusion of mechanical and material progress with moral progress. Irving Babbitt
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The majority of this money goes to pay commercial broadcasters to run these ads, these TV spots, which are now the whole basis of campaigning.
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You've got to be big enough to say I was wrong, have your administrative assistant get the lawyers, get the litigants back in, and be big enough to go on the record and correct it.
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All the things I really like are either immoral, illegal or fattening. Alexander Woollcott
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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
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Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form. Lester Bangs
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What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along. Leslie Fiedler
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Writers always know whether you like them or not.
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Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
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This comparative indifference to clearness and consistency of thought is visible even in that chief object of our national concern, education.
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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Pauline Kael
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The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.
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The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.
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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
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You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. Vincent Canby