"These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society."
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"I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information."
"I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life."
"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
"Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy."
"'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films."
"Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself."
"I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories."
"If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more."
"I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world."
"John Wick does different techniques. Everything is available to him. There isn't one way of working a weapon. I like the reload with the flick going outside. That movement of getting rid of the magazine is to go sideways with it."
"If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc."
"It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94."
"I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time."
"I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back."
"If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there."
"You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living."
"On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes."
"The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died."
"I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation."