Magazines Quotes - Page 32

• As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

  John Hodgman

  Wine, Experts, Veterinarian

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

  John Hodgman

  Adventure, Careers, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

  Ross Douthat

  Intellectual, Firsts, Young Writers

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• I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rocks, Yugoslavia, Issues

  The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

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• It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hero, Stories, Galaxy

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• When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.

  Justin Bieber

  Writing, People, Negative

  "Justin Bieber Reveals Will Smith Counsels Him Weekly in Rare, Raw Interview" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Writing, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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• All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Book, Men, Order

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

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• I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

  Martin Parr

  Photography

  "Martin Parr: My Media". Interview with John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

  Megan McCafferty

  Girl, Winning, Years

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• How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so others will take notice of your art? When I was first trying to get noticed, all of these questions went through my mind. After a lot of trial of error and a lot of reading, I began to understand the world of public relations.

  Mark Edward

  Art, Reading, Errors

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• If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Winning, Office, Different

  "OMG, You Have to Take 5 Minutes to Read Our Hilarious Interview With New Girl's Jake Johnson!". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  Victoria Legrand

  People, Listening, Way

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• Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

  Masa Takayama

  Today, Firsts, Newspapers

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• I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

  Peter York

  Caring, Clothes, Arrows

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• I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.

  Trent Dilfer

  Book, Golf, Used

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• Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Reality, Thinking, Television Commercials

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

  David Plotz

  Political, Doe, Slate

  "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• One of the clues that I chased was that Dan Cooper, whoever he was, found an old magazine story called "How to Leave Your Life." And followed the directions on how to leave your life, and just went to the beach one day with his wife and kids, and said he needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the restroom at the beach and never came home.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Beach, Kids, Home

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

  Christopher Bollen

  School, Artist, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Editors, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

  Jonathan Carroll

  College, Editors, Ideas

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• In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

  Robert Briffault

  Running, Jobs, Taken

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• I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

  Stan Lee

  Kids, Unique, Superhero

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