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Darryl Pinckney
"When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to tell someone about something that they may know nothing about. They depend on you to read or interpret as best as you can." --
Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
Darryl Pinckney
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“Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me an additional reason to cleave to that side of the spectrum. Canadian Conservatives have generally been more comfortable and confident with hard security issues.”
“I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.”
“I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'”
“Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.”
Source : Source: collider.com
“I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.”
“My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”
“He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.”
“I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.”