Quotes about american-critic
american-critic chris few walked
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley. Gene Siskel
american-critic liked
We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.
american-critic care people work wrote
It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media. Chuck Klosterman
american-critic asked cool entertainment magazine mom weekly written
In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.
american-critic changed happened less life ozzy people piece year
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
american-critic dawned outside people realm remotely seemed
It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.
american-critic asked compare guy street
I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.
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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. Paul Goldberger
american-critic borrow buy chances maybe money obscure savings station ten
Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
american-critic best funny game harry listening watching
Listening to Harry when he was at his best was like watching the game with your funny uncle, the one who used to play Double-A ball. Richard Roeper
american-critic maximize public purely simply supposed
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
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That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me. Harry Knowles
american-critic basically cover credible
Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.
american-critic box days good learned offices
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
american-critic time
There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11. Joe Bob Briggs
american-critic friends-or-friendship hard job people sooner writers
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. Anatole Broyard
american-critic armed poetry sentences wrapped
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
american-critic art both folk form
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. Leslie Fiedler
american-critic none
No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. Lester Bangs
american-critic boring everywhere horrible mass ugly
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.
american-critic basically maybe moral original recreate
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
american-critic general mean people reflects running society
Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
american-critic anymore country myth obviously
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
american-critic art tears
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. Louis Kronenberger
american-critic display greater
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
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Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
american-critic blow clear somebody
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.
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Writers always know whether you like them or not.
american-critic art artist civilization country follow free full future importance nourish roots society takes vision wherever
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
american-critic critic information rest source
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
american-critic bread holding minds staple
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.
american-critic groove hard hard-work nature needs people renewed task work
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.
american-critic decade magazine redesign wisdom
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.