Jerry Saltz Quotes
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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The civil service are risk averse.
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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.
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The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
