Jerry Saltz Quotes
I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
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'...Open anything you want. Go anywhere you wish. But I absolutely forbid you to enter that little room, and if you open it so much as a crack, nothing will protect you from my wrath.'
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.
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I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'
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I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
