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Vincent Canby Quotes

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Vincent Canby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 27, 1924 - October 15, 2000

Topics

Good Experience Feeling Living Own

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

Stephenie Meyer

People Me Summer Far Away Upset Big

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Travis Barker

Kind Rock Band Playing Just Locally

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

Tommy Lee

Feet You Meant To Be Want Sitting

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Tom Hanks

Optimism Me Think You Understand

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Russell Simmons

People Ideas Hip-Hop Out Been Who

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Ruth Rendell

Hope Time Long You Nobody Long Time

The short film project I just finished for W Hotels and Intel, I didn't have my script finished until a few days before we began filming. We edited it very quickly and now it's up online. It was great to conceive an idea and have it premiere just a few weeks later, compared to a feature, which takes a year or more.

Roman Coppola

Great Short Year Now More Project

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

Mary Wilson Little

Sleep Sleeping Always Ireland Knows

Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.

Mary Pilon

Moment Brain Performance Career Line

I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

Moby

Walk New York People Door Isolation

They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans.

Juan Gabriel

Respect Me Fame Important Say More

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Donald Judd

Art Think More Pure Purity Anything