Michelle Dean Quotes
Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.
Michelle Dean
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
Barry Mann
In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.
Albert Einstein
'So you say, so you say,' murmured Fflewddur, hurrying after him. 'Look closer into your heart. You may find your opinion to be somewhat different.'
Lloyd Alexander
My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.
David Frankel
There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
Mary Steenburgen
It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
CeeLo Green
I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
Lauren Jauregui
Fifth Harmony
I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Joanna Newsom
To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.
Lysander Spooner
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
Phil Jackson
I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
Kids are funny.
Mark Waters
Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
Amity Gaige
We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.
Geoffrey Canada
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
William Shakespeare
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.
Michael Arlen
The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.
George Washington
Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.
Michelle Dean
