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Walter Kerr Quotes

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 8, 1913 - October 9, 1996

Topics

People World Enough Clever Idiots

When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.

Me Thought Doing You Mad Meeting

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Famous Make Marching Babies Did

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

House Up Mourning State Constant

I think outing people is fear-based: the fear that if we don't out them, it will make things harder for all of us. It's important to treat people with love.

Love Fear People Treat Think Will

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Work Art Words Me Create Build

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Live Children Believe Kids Engaged

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

Money Me Smiling Seeing Heaven Run

Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

God Lord He Springsteen

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Funny Moving Say Nashville Something

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Eyes Time Voice Feel Citizen Way

I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.

Change People Think Climate Change

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Music Writing Shadows Poem Like

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