Eric Alterman Quotes
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.Eric Alterman
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong -
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
Hansika Motwani
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang -
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
Zooey Deschanel -
I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
Saku Koivu -
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben -
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
Abbey Lincoln -
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
Ian McDiarmid -
When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
Pablo Picasso -
In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
Danielle Darrieux -
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
Charles Gounod -
Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away,spitting great gobs of blood all over me,drenching me in showers of his dark blood.And I rejoiced-just as the fecund earthrejoices when the heavens send spring rains
Aeschylus -
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
Eric Alterman