Jerry Saltz Quotes
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.
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I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
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I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.
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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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Rekindled love is generally short – term.
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I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
