Jerry Saltz Quotes
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
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I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.
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It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams. -Arthur Mentis
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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
