Rob Sheffield Quotes - Page 3

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• The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

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  Lonely, Feelings, Hungry

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.174, Crown Archetype

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

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  Song, Hurt, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

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  Song, Likes, Sad Things

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.13, Crown Archetype

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• ...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

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  Kindness, People, Brain

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.195, Crown Archetype

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• The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.

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  Girl, Husband, Worship You

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.97, Penguin

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• Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

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  Hockey, Player, Musician

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.33, Penguin

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• Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

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  Girl, Rooms

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.66, Crown Archetype

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• It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

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  Color, Orange, Trying

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.28, Penguin

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• It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

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  People, Brave, Failing

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time”, Crown

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• I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

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  Summer, Home, Kids

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• The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.

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  Grief, Winter, Night

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• Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

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  Moments

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.12, Crown Archetype

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• Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

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  Memories, Tape, Tonight

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.12, Crown Archetype

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• Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

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  Falling In Love, Long, Pieces

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• Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

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  Mother, Giving, House

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.125, Penguin

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• I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

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  Girl, Falling In Love, Clueless

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.29, Crown Archetype

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• Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

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  Teacher, Teenager, Madly In Love

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.72, Penguin

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• Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

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  New York, Stars, Inspiration

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• It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

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  Pain, Loss, Opposites

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

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  Revenge, Style, Dallas

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• On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

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  Jobs, Zero, Idols

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• Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

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  Song, Morning, Mp3

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• Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

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  Baseball, Race, President

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• At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

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  Girl, Summer, Wall

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• Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

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  Rocks, Play, Boss

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