Al Feldstein Quotes

There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

Al Feldstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1925 - April 29, 2014

Topics

PeopleRichBackTelevisionDown

Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.

Joanna Coles

LoveGreatFoodJoySurviveYou

I'm going to be that little old lady that's just, like, walking around and just, like, full of energy, probably with bright red hair or something crazy.

Jessie James Decker

RedCrazyHairEnergyWalkingLady

I'm one of those people who says 'Yes' to everything, and in New York, that's a real liability. In the city, I could be playing seven nights a week and not finding the time to finish my own compositions.

Jenny Scheinman

TimeNew YorkPeopleCityFinding

I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful.

Jenny Packham

LovePaintingLongHandDresses

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

Jenny Zhang

LateWonderPoetPoemTextAlphabet

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

John Grisham

GoodGreatMyselfI AmWritingHard

You can really shoot things you think might work on camera one way, then you can try it that way, and then if you think it could also work another way, you have that luxury of shooting a bunch of different steps, and then they can decide in editing what works the best.

Megan Mullally

WorkBestThinkCameraLuxuryYou

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

Robert Krulwich

EyesYouWantListenWriteRadio

People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance.

Michael Gerber

PeopleBelieveDiscriminationSkill

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.

John Zimmer

FriendMotherBestJobStartYou

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Steve Guttenberg

YouKnowHollywoodSmilesAnything

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

Rob Portman

TodayGovernmentYouPlayRight

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