Rob Sheffield Quotes - Page 4

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• 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

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  Lonely, Kids, Way

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• Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

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  Precious Things

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• Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

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  Stars, Boston, Fans

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• I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.

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  Conversation, Fourteen, Clash

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.14, Penguin

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

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  Stars, Talking, Office

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• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

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  Song, Loneliness, Boys

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• It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

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  Cheer, Sorry, Night

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• It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

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  Song, Play, Band

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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

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  Hate, Ideas, Paris

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• You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.

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  Caring, Thinking, Virginia

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• '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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• I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you.

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  World, Whole, Whole World

  "Love is a Mix Tape". Book by Rob Sheffield, 2007.

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• The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

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  Song, Hate, Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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