Lester Bangs Quotes
O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
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I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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We're the generation that says 60 is the new 30. We don't let the numbers shape us; we're reshaping the numbers.
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Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
