Gary Giddins Quotes

If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, certainly at this point, and have for most of my career. You're only hearing it once and then you go to your typewriter and you write the review.

Gary Giddins

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Myself
  • Fire
  • Tried

• I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I love talking about myself.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Talking

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Long
  • Record
  • Metallica

• For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Myself

• In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Find

• There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Man
  • Myself

• One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Myself
  • Being

• I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Outside

• I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

  

  Indra Devi
  • God
  • Myself
  • Religion

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Play
  • Fall
  • Find

• Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

  

  William Blake
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance
  • Dwells

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

  

  Susan Sullivan
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Material

• If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, certainly at this point, and have for most of my career. You're only hearing it once and then you go to your typewriter and you write the review.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Myself
  • Record
  • Point