Lester Bangs Quotes

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Lester Bangs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1948 - April 30, 1982

Topics

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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

Jimmy Fallon

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The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

Andrew Stanton

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I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world.

Megan Mullally

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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

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Performing live is a part of who I am.

Tracy Lawrence

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Successful ideas, they snowball.

Ron Johnson

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It's so important that people know there was a time before the NHS. It makes them appreciate it more.

Miriam Margolyes

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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Mo Rocca

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I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.

Julia Davis

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Nobody escapes during Lisa Lampanelli's show.

Lisa Lampanelli

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Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

Jason Reynolds

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Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles especially strong. Job growth has bolstered household income, and lower energy prices have left consumers with more to spend on other goods and services.

Janet Yellen

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