Archive for category: Quotations

Holly Hunter manquée Kara Swisher    (2014.08.27)

Kara Swisher: “I essentially called him a pig, with my name attached,” Swisher says. “You have to stand up and not be embarrassed or victimized.” When she subsequently saw McLaughlin at a party, she says, he told her, “ ‘Most people in this town stab you in the back, but you stabbed me in the front, and I appreciate that.’ I said ‘Anytime, you son of a bitch’ ”

Self-insulation    (2014.04.19)

Denton: “Why do you think Gawker is snarkier than I would like? The easy way to insulate yourself against snark is to preëmptively snark”

Esther Perel    (2014.04.19)

“Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become”

Tracy Letts    (2014.04.19)

“ ‘Tracy Letts, friend to many, good friend to none.’ I had to turn it over and wonder, Is that true? Am I that closed?”

Peter Saville: Cultural canon and menacingly unfounded partnerships    (2013.12.26)

Peter Saville: So-called collaborative projects are “often menacingly unfounded partnerships between somebody who has some kind of credibility somewhere and the large companies who need that to keep enhancing their position”

‘Have this cookie. It’s good’    (2013.09.24)

Alan Zweig: “I have tried to no longer define myself this way, but most of my life I defined myself by my failure at filmmaking”

Feminist defender of Omar Khadr finds men ‘immature’    (2012.10.15)

Omar Khadr’s lawyer: “I think all males are immature”

‘Network’    (2012.10.11)

“Hi, I’m Diana Christensen, a racist lackey of the imperialist ruling circles”

‘That’s the act’    (2012.09.17)

“The guy on keyboards who doesn’t smile and the singer who looks a bit uncomfortable…. That’s the act”