Graydon Carter Quotes

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Graydon Carter

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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

John Sterling

WorldOwnTyrantsOurLordsAffords

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

Sigrid

HomeTogetherBackJazzListenMum

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Robert Duvall

LoveMorningSmellJuiceBoxes

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Antonio Damasio

SimpleMindSelfAttentionMinds

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Asif Ali Zardari

GoodGovernmentActorNeverBooks

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Allan Bloom

TruthTruth IsStudentUniversityHe

I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.

Allison Janney

BeautyWomenGreatDressNew York

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.

Alia Shawkat

GoodQualityAngryTeenMeYou

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

Norah Jones

PeopleCoolOutPopLotOverdo

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

Moshe Dayan

TodayBloodUsDemandReckoningOur

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

Kenneth Branagh

LifeMy LifeSayDirectorStageOut

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

James Horner

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