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Lester Bangs Quotes

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

Lester Bangs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Think Country Myth Going Get Whole

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.

Jessica Sanchez

Music Competition I Am Survive Big

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak

Life Work Friend Live Children Me

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

John Rocha

I Am Me Heritage Everything Made Am

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Tom Lehrer

Job Writing Now Quit First Years

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

Paths Fame Critics Those

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

Mary Gaitskill

Age Loved Anything Level Above Even

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

Michelle Bachelet

Women Pride Measure Nobody Now

As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

Deborah Tannen

Work People Research Differences

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Chrissie Hynde

Me Suits Standards Fine Disgusted

Rather than running on the treadmill, which can become quite boring, I prefer to work on my dance routine. Besides being a good form of cardiovascular exercise, it is also a form of escape for me, as I never realise how much time has flown by when I am dancing.

Tiger Shroff

Work Good Time Dance I Am Me

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

Tim McGraw

Love Red King Think Talking Him

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

Richard Greenberg

People City Feel You House Place