Frank Rich Quotes

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

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• Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Me
  • Fame
  • Deal

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Hope

• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Boy
  • Independent
  • Ice

• I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Go

• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Place

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Looking
  • Blame

• You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Myself

• When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Chance
  • Look
  • Name

• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• The way I inspire loyalty in my team is for them to see me more casually, to have lunch with members of my team, for them to see me with my family, my fiance, to see the real me.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Real
  • Family
  • Team

• Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Great
  • Different
  • Lyrics

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I was a bad journalist.

  

  David Brock
  • Bad

• You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Character
  • Bad

• One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Bad
  • Alone