Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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EntertainmentAudienceSinceLeast

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

WorkCriticismLiteraturePersonWit

There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

Jessica Valenti

PowerSaidSomethingWhomEffect

Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

Jerry Greenfield

BusinessMoneyCaringEnvironmental

I feel like racism isn't over.

Joel Embiid

RacismFeelOverI Feel LikeLike

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

LearningBusinessGreatManOutHow

I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It's like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, 'Hey, that's for me.'

Angus Young

RedMeLookingGuitarLonelyDevil

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Michael Cimino

FriendshipWordsGivingImportant

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

MusicArtPoetryMindPainting

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

Tove Lo

TimeSongThinkLaughSomeonePlay

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Rupert Murdoch

GovernmentFreeBelieveConservative

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

Mary McCormack

GoodPersonPlayingGracefulWhere

Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.

Logic

RacismPeopleMeTreatBlackFeel

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