Comment Quotes - Page 9

• Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode - whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting.

  Steven C. Harper

  Jobs, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Interesting, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

  Clarence Page

  Writing, Winning, Expectations

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Veteran Journalist Clarence Page Continues To Make ‘front Page’ News!". Interview With Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 12, 2015.

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• My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Ironic, Irony

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• That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Art, Attitude, Views

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• My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.

  Patrick Fitzgerald

  Jobs, Judgment, Crime

  "Cheney Aide Libby Indicted in Plame Case". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. October 28, 2005.

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• I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

  Catherine Tate

  Clothes, Hair, People

  "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.

  David Farrier

  Gay, Men, Competition

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

  Emma Watson

  Reading, Media, Empathy

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2014

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• The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.

  Lucio Russo

  Past, Culture, Fiction

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

  Carol Tavris

  Book, Psychology, Research

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• the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

  Ruth Rendell

  Weather, England, Climate

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• I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Nice, Mean, Thoughtful

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• All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Social

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• Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Thinking, Media, Yesterday

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• I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards."

  Matthew Healy

  Example, World, Levels

  "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews.

  Ruth Smeeth

  Party, Space, Finals

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• If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

  Jessica Valenti

  Like You, Youtube, Ifs

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial, the mix of black and white in particular. I've actually never been to their worship for an extended period of time, so I can't comment wisely on it.

  Michael Emerson

  Black And White, Different, Worship

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.

  Rachel Kushner

  Reality, Kind, Modern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

  Viola Davis

  Emotional, People, Might

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.

  Jessica Valenti

  Writing, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic point of view whether or not they have a degree, it sort of alters the validity of you have to place on anyone's individual comment.

  Seth Green

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Interview: Seth Green talks ‘Dads’ controversy". Interview with Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. September 17, 2013.

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• I think the biggest thing to do - especially if you're a woman trying to succeed in a male-dominated industry - is to just study as much you can and get ready for negativity, backlash, and comments. There's going to be a ton of it.

  Erin Andrews

  Thinking, Negativity, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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