American - Journalist | July 14, 1949 -
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
Graydon Carter
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I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.
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You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.
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We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'
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I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
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I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
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There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.
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I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
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Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
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I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.
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The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.
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