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Quote by James Wolcott

“People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.”

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James Wolcott is an American journalist known for his commentary on pop culture and politics. Born on December 10, 1952, he has been contributing to 'The New Yorker' magazine since the 1980s. more

“The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an organism. A certain dynamism. At The Village Voice, there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. The New Yorker used to be notorious for everything that went on, sexual intrigues and people had individual offices, they could close the door and take a bottle out of their bottom drawer or have sex on their desk.”

People Writing Individual Break Internet Office Bottom Solitary Notorious

Author:James Wolcott

“I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a lot more information, you're not making it up, it's there in books, it's there in research form. But really the questions you ask about the character, and why people behave, and where they come, and how they've ended up in the places they've ended up are the same.”

People Thinking Book Real Sometimes Character Behave

Author:Keira Knightley

“It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?”

Kind Audience Mad Tricky

Author:Keira Knightley

“I think looking at as, "Bands that release their music for free online only make their money from playing live," is not seeing the full picture. Maybe the dollars specifically come from shows, but people are coming to the shows because they heard the songs, they heard the songs because they are free on the Internet. It all builds into the same thing.”

People Thinking Song Internet Online

Author:Jeff Rosenstock

“I think a lot why our lives shows are good is because of the crowd, and because of the energy that they bring. Also, there was a time when a lot of the people that came to our shows were a bunch of drunk bros. At a certain point, we decided we were going to start calling them out. We also decided to become more gay-positive and feminist and all that stuff, and that we were going to be really vocal about it. After that, our crowd became a lot friendlier, and honestly a lot more fun.”

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Author:Jeff Rosenstock

“Bands now are always trying to make their presence known through social networking and whatnot, but that's just the same as bands before the Internet age trying to connect with fans in some other way. But I don't follow people on Facebook, I think that's creepy. I wouldn't want them following me on Facebook. I don't even have a mailing list.”

People Thinking Trying Age Internet Creepy Social Networking Social Network Mailing

Author:Jeff Rosenstock

“I think me, Sean Bonnette and Laura Jane Grace, and a lot of the bands people feel that way about, we're just really honest in our lyrics. I think we got really lucky in that the right kind of people who would appreciate that heard us at the right time, because there are plenty of people that are honest in their lyrics.”

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Author:Jeff Rosenstock

“If someone comes up to me at a show and talks to me, if they're not freaking out about meeting me, which I'm just not very good at dealing with, of course I'll talk to them. I'm mean, they're a person. I'm not a monster. It may sound like bullshit humility, but I'm just a dude making music. I'd be doing this if no one was listening.”

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Author:Jeff Rosenstock

“Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed to make sense to see if we could live our lives without the band.”

Done Make Sense

Author:Jeff Rosenstock

“I'm happy with the way everything turned out. Even the mistakes we've made I wouldn't take back because they ended up yielding something good.”

Mistake

Author:Jeff Rosenstock

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