Magazines Quotes - Page 27

• Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

  Ann Patchett

  Teenager, Writing, Two

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• That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

  Jon Postel

  Interesting, Computer, Internet

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• I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Football, Real, Team

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• If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Museums, Play, Magic

  "Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

  Alana Stewart

  People, House, Looks

  "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Insane, Taught, Workshops

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• Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

  Blake Shelton

  Men, People, Guy

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• What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

  Blake Shelton

  Country, Needs, Television

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

  Geddy Lee

  Thinking, Names, Different

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• If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, Loss, Office

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• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  Andrea Thompson

  Art, Apology, Black And White

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• I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

  Andrew Tobias

  New York, School, Editors

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• Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

  Mike White

  Girl, Thinking, Awards

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• It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

  Scott Weiland

  Air, Stories, Agendas

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• I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

  Angus Young

  Running, School, Kids

  "Q & A With Angus Young of AC/DC". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 17, 2000.

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• But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

  Richard Simmons

  Peanut Butter, Doe, Weight

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

  Robert James Waller

  Art, People, Safety

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• The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

  Bienvenido Lumbera

  Lying, Book, Opportunity

  Bienvenido Lumbera (1984). “Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture”

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• When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.

  Geneen Roth

  Giving Up, Sweat, Voice

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• My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Men, Numbers

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• Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?

  Suh Jung

  Fashion, Writing, Men

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• Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.

  William Bastone

  Editors, Stills, Sells

  "Celebrity Worship Syndrome Abounds" by Keturah Gray, abcnews.go.com.

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• I
  would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young
  girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some
  people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being
  created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those
  magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Teenage, People

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• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Real, War

  "Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture". Book by Amber Davisson, 2013.

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• I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

  Jim Norton

  New York, Appreciate, Guy

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