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 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 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 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 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 holding learned moment pieces quite revelation together trick
But the trick of holding off and having all the pieces come together at the moment of the revelation was something I must have learned quite early. Stephen Greenblatt
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 belly favorite fiction jump line morning pours raymond tries
My favorite line of fiction is from Raymond Carver's Gazebo: 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon, she tries to jump out the window. I go, Holly, this can't continue.' Chuck Klosterman
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
american-critic anybody fatal fixed growth life narrow point since view
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Brooks Atkinson
american-critic doorstep felt free perfectly virtually
Yet it wasn't so long ago that virtually every person in the world felt perfectly free to show up on the doorstep of any other person in the world.
american-critic scenes
There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince. Joel Siegel
american-critic good mind perhaps
At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's. Alexander Woollcott
american-critic claim compelling life work
But I wanted to make a claim: the claim here is that life is actually compelling and that Shakespeare's life is what he principally had to work with.
american-critic less mainstream michael prevailing style takes
The prevailing style in the mainstream is represented by Michael Bay. This is shorter and shorter takes and less and less dialogue. Roger Ebert
american-critic believe russell won
You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.
american-critic public
The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
american-critic angeles companies francisco gave government los monopoly picked picking san setting terms winners york
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
american-critic government handful monopoly picking rights winners
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.
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