Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it’s claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer’s list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.
Here’s how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. ‘You’re listening to the highlights,’ Royko observed.
I begin to feel like most Americans don’t understand the First Amendment, don’t understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don’t understand that it’s the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
I don’t think Bush was legitimately elected President.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn’t matter.
If your religion doesn’t respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
I’m kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That’s fine with me.
Film theory has nothing to do with film.
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can’t give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don’t just try to shut them up.
Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.
I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.
Aren’t you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.
3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood’s current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.