Magazines Quotes

• A magazine is so much more beautiful than what's online.

  Mike McCue

  Beautiful, Online

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• There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.

  Tom Wolfe

  Technology, Issues, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Adventure

  "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

  Chris Hughes

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Views

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• Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

  David Talbot

  New York, Moving, Sleep

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• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Memorable, Feminist

  Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

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• The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

  James Dickey

  New York, Crazy, Intelligent

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• I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

  Jane Haddam

  Teacher, College, Editors

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• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  Adam Baldwin

  Mean, Keys, Careers

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• I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere

  Charlie Hunnam

  Smile, Believe, Character

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• There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

  Paul Rudd

  Jobs, Stars, Taken

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• There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.

  Doris Roberts

  Light, Age, Viagra

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• But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Girl, Black, Wish

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• When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

  Alice Hamilton

  Silence, Textbooks, Strange

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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• I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

  Christian Lacroix

  Book, Clothes, Grandparent

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• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

  Helen Dunmore

  Entering, Firsts, Tradition

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• It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Past, Heritage, May

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• But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, United States, Joining

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• I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Epidemics, Obesity Epidemic, America

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  Fay Godwin

  Book, Inspire, Chance

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• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

  Ville Valo

  Hate, Thinking, People

  eGigs interview, www.egigs.co.uk. January 31, 2004.

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• I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world

  Delia Smith

  Book, World, Cookery

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• After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

  Joseph Barbera

  Cartoon, Done, Satisfied

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Winning, Awards, Guy

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• I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teenager, Reading, Discovery

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