Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carteris a Canadian-born American journalist and has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
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It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
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Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.
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My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
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Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
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The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
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Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
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You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.
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Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.
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Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser.'