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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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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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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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.
