Nathan Rabin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.
-- Nathan Rabin

#Art #Long #Important
I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.
-- Nathan Rabin

#Powerful #Stress #Memorial
Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.
-- Nathan Rabin

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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

Nathan Rabin famous quotes

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