"What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle."

-- James Wolcott

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“I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.”
“The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.”

Source : Interview with John Seigenthaler, america.aljazeera.com. January 21, 2014.
“I knew well in advance even before I stepped on the stage for my first event that I was going to lose.”

Source : "Khorkina lashes judges as cheats". www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.
“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”
“Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.”
“First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”
“But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.573, Ballantine Books
“AfterÂ youâ€™ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, youÂ might as well go out and have a good time.”

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