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Vincent Canby Quotes

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Edge Washington Teeth Wherever Might

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

Yourself Guitar Learn Hands You How

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

Business Interesting Doing Long Up

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Work Me Work Hard Win You Know

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

Funny Friend New York Negative Media

I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.

Michael Azerrad

Home Music People Criticism You See

Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepresented the labor and civil rights movements as two separate, sometimes adversarial efforts. But civil rights and workers' rights are two sides of the same coin.

Commitment Labor Sometimes Same Coin

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Start Sometimes Hard Tell Where

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

Work Me Think Feel Friends Play

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Lisa Papademetriou

Job Me Reading Thought Grow Someone

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Green You Predict Tractor Big Going

I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

Love Energy Rock Up Little Big

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

Opportunity Time Management Small

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