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Quotes by Critic
"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."
3
"I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it."
3
"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you."
3
"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
3
"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat."
3
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
3
"It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically."
3
"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
3
"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."
3
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
3
"And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals."
3
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
3
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
3
"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal."
3
"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face."
3
"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
3
"I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music."
3
"Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role."
3
"Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments."
3
"If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen."
3
"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
3
"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day."
3
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
3
"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
3
"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm."
3
"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country."
3
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
3
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