Depressing Quotes - Page 14

• Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Culture Religion, Criticism, Tradition

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• I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Fun, People, Lucky

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• In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

  Ariel Gore

  Moments, Behinds, Staying

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• Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Thinking, Firsts

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• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  Patrick Carney

  Cities, People, Interesting

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.

  Nick Denton

  Moving, Fall, Keys

  "Nick Denton: how Gawker's blogging has evolved" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

  Daniel Gillies

  Rain, Air, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

  Troy Garity

  Art, School, Safe Environment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Guitar, Years, Two

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Bed, Knowledge Is Power, Ends

  "Lean, Green Fighting Machine" by Paula Poundstone, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?

  David Brewster

  Art, Struggle, Science

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Retirement, Real, Moving

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• Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

  Manny Farber

  Sex, Sunset, Stories

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.644, Library of America

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• If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Writing, Hands, Guilty

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Optimistic, Work Out, Trying

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• If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Political, Ifs, Political Life

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• This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Thinking, Availability, Issues

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• I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Watches, Critical

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• I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!

  Josh Radnor

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

  George Carlin

  People, Culture, Want

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• You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Lying, Party, People

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Interview with Debbie McQuoid, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sarcastic, Jobs, England

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• The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Struggle, Artist, Advice

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• I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about.

  Chris Rock

  Talking, Down And, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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