"Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or…" — Russell Smith
"Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain."
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39 Quotes by Russell Smith
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just…
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it…
— Saint Augustine
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against…
— Mario Balotelli
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I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile…
— Drew Barrymore
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be…
— Jacques Barzun
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
— Lewis Black
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You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's…
— Lewis Black
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I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to…
— Lewis Black
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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it…
— Bobby Bowden
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