Tabloids Quotes - Page 8

• In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

  Eddie Izzard

  Powerful, Tears, Dresses

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

  Jason Collins

  Athlete, Gay, Self

  "Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.

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• My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

  Mika

  Friendly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... One paper had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Princess, Sleep

  " Martin Amis: 'The press is more vicious than the populace'" by Geordie Williamson, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Drunk, Freedom Of Speech

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Song, Garden, Delight

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.195, Verso

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• I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I'd be in big trouble, wouldn't I? Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. I'll tell you, being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. But you take the cards you're dealt, and I got better. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

  Margot Kidder

  Get Well, Crazy, Eye

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Hurt, People, Trying

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• They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Thinking, Terrible

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• I have kissed all the girls I worked with! I'm just a very affectionate person, I love to hug and kiss people I care about. It was taken the wrong way in tabloids, and people insinuated all kinds of things. I called her to tell her what happened, but unfortunately, this was one of the things that stopped our relationship.

  Maureen McCormick

  Girl, Taken, Kissing

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

  Justin Kirk

  Believe, Legends, Way

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• A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

  Errol Morris

  Movie, Stories, Theme

  "Errol Morris: 'The Thin Blue Line' would not have saved Randall Adams today" by Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. July 13, 2011.

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• America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

  Alveda King

  America, Leader, Want

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• I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

  James Salter

  Way To Live, Opinion, Bourgeois

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

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• Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.

  Peter York

  Mother, Fashion, Baby

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