Jerry Saltz Quotes

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

Jerry Saltz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1951

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My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

Ann Cleeves

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I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Amy Winehouse

EmotionalOnlyPhysicalNeeds

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

Amy Winehouse

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Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.

Tom Douglas

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Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Michael Leunig

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We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

Joshua Foer

MemoriesTrustSmallResultDigital

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

Dino De Laurentiis

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I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

Donovan

I AmSongStartGuitarFinishOut

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

William Shatner

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I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

Peter Gallagher

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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Thomas Huxley

TimeMenFreeEqualFictionSense

Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.

Ryan Cabrera

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