Quotes about american-critic
american-critic bad economic fun heck producers production
The production is great, the producers do a heck of a job. And, yes, it's fun doing the work. In the course, the economic payback isn't too bad either.
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 cases issue tend
So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.
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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If it were better, it wouldn't be as good. Brendan Gill
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
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The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
american-critic art great time toward work
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Daniel Barenboim
american-critic concerned great ideas rather vice
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. Lionel Trilling
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That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me. Harry Knowles
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 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.
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You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
american-critic drawn scene sets
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. Vincent Canby
american-critic average electronic hour last minutes published saw says states survey three united variety weeks
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
american-critic creativity goes profits quality
One side, profits go up, they own more and more, but the diversity, interest, creativity and quality of the programming goes way down.
american-critic democracy doctrine interests itself man rights seek substitute
One should, therefore, in the interests of democracy itself seek to substitute the doctrine of the right man for the doctrine of the rights of man. Irving Babbitt
american-critic cent federal judges ninety people per ten
One of our federal judges said, not long ago, that what the American people need is ten per cent of thought and ninety per cent of action.
american-critic home time writes
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. Alfred Kazin