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american-critic
If it were better, it wouldn't be as good. Brendan Gill
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. Stephen Greenblatt
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 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 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 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 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 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. Joe Bob Briggs
american-critic scenes
There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince. Joel Siegel
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 commercial half higher left mile success
You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.
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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. Paul Goldberger
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.
american-critic fighter hobby retired since took
Well, I was a referee. I've since retired from that. I was a fighter and I took up refereeing as a hobby after I retired from being a competitive fighter. And see, I've got no nose.
american-critic black law people police recognize red white
Well, I think you've get to get people on the bench, and the police and people in law enforcement to recognize that we're all Americans. We're not black Americans, white Americans, red Americans: We're all Americans.
american-critic system work
Well, I think, unfortunately, the application of the system sometimes is not fair. I think that's something that we have to work out - work at very, very, very hard.
american-critic
That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me. Harry Knowles
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
american-critic both greatest journalism local print radio stuff television
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
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.
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.
american-critic
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
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 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 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