Eric Alterman Quotes

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Eric Alterman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

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Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

Jim Sturgess

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I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

Jesse Eisenberg

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The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

Andie MacDowell

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I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

Michael Connelly

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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Robert Bly

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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

Mike D

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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Michael Nutter

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A story is how we construct our experiences.

Doris Lessing

StoryExperiencesConstructOurHow

I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.

Chauncey Billups

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When I say I'm living the dream, I honestly don't know how it can get any better.

Cole Swindell

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Even primitive areas can produce a superstar.

Ciputra

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If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

Alison Owen

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