Quotes about american-critic
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 cross follow honor judges law oath view
There are some judges that in my view do cross the line. They try to make up the law as they go along. Those judges, in my view, respectfully, do not honor their oath. Their oath is to construe the law and follow the law the legislature enacts.
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 finally left life relation works
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.
american-critic audience eventually good provided relatively written
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
american-critic life love spent thinking though written
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
american-critic exploit great hold onto power stories
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
american-critic began case certainly fact originated poems published
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
american-critic body contain food home house mind unless
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. Margaret Fuller
american-critic call mostly poem poems strength
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. Harold Bloom
american-critic discourse great negative primary reactions represent repressed return sum
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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 popular
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch
american-critic cutting directors flat influenced lighting modern movies style textbook
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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I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.
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 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. Joe Bob Briggs
american-critic scenes
There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.
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.
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 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 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 time
There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.
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 attracting favorite herself host name seems talk willing
My new favorite talk show host in the world is Tyra Banks, who seems willing to do just about anything to herself in the name of attracting viewers. Richard Roeper