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“Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.”

World Should Said Interest Acting Models Magazines Glamour

Author:Laura Prepon

“I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.”

Thinking Years Wells Problem Today Fashion Destroyed Magazines Embarrassing Fashionable Parody

Author:Louise Wilson

“It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine.”

Wells Book Home Night Bed Lonely My Favorite Magazines Every Night Curls Favorite Book

Author:Tom Arnold

“It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.”

Water Boys Wife Mines Mets Magazines Copies Bad Times Treading Time Magazine

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.”

Care Values Rich Magazines Assets Ranking No One Cares Forbes

Author:Mikhail Prokhorov

“Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.”

Looks Girl Felt Air Pressure Magazines Every Girl Popular Girl

Author:Jewel

“'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.”

Firsts Bigs Film Deals Students Breathe Magazines Big Deal

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“I just want to say that um, I'm just really, really shocked at like how nice our world is because it's just so nice. Like oh my God! Like, the other day, like I was sitting there and I saw these magazines and they said I was pregnant, and like, it's so true. Like America, believe everything you read. Because, like, you're smart and I'm stupid. Like for real. Come on y'all.”

World Want Believe Said Real America Saws Nice Stupid Like You Smart Sitting Magazines Our World Pregnant They Said Shocked Were Pregnant

Author:Britney Spears

“My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.”

Fashion Photography Magazines Introduction Vogue Harper Fashion Magazines Bazaars

Author:Patti Smith

“Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.”

People Mind Body Used Reading Levels Quality Example Newspapers Magazines Prose High Quality Reading Magazines

Author:Paul Auster

“One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'”

Said I Can Play Kids Wanted Found Felt Figures Gay Sorry Magazines Journalist Interviews One Time Halfway Gay Marriage Public Figures Fundraiser

Author:Moby

“When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.”

Writing Firsts Book Criticism Magazines Eccentric Literary Criticism Early 20s

Author:Jonathan Meades

“A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.”

People Ifs Giving Looks Shows Sports Car Offers Give Me Magazines Ems Freak Sports Cars

Author:Ice T

“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.”

Art Made Stills Form Rich Tradition Magazines Graduates Resilient Satirical Art History Pedants Sacrilegious

Author:Scott Simon

“I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.”

Writing Ends School Storytelling Magazines

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.”

Firsts Looks Stills America Photography News Magazines Portraits

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.”

Looks Facts Black White Study Photography Magazines Black And White Black And White Photography

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.”

Writing Years Remember Couple Prison Magazines Inmates

Author:Patricia McConnell

“My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across National Lampoon Magazine, that was a big thing. I suddenly felt like there were other people that felt the way I did, and there was a way of expressing and communicating this worldview.”

People Way Bigs Kids Literature Felt Views Comedy Communicate Point Of View Magazines Eras Big Things Worldview National Lampoon

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.”

People Ifs Feels Reading House Talking Tables Magazines Urges Chatting

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.”

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Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.”

Book Different Sometimes Versions Magazines Publish

Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez

“Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.”

Wells Book Pay Paid Stealing Magazines Posts Essays Blogs Publication Blogging

Author:Kate Christensen

“It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.”

People Want Use Television Industry Paper Complicated Advertising Magazines Ads Mechanism Papers Old Days

Author:Astra Taylor

“So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs.”

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Author:Tod Goldberg

“I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit a literary magazine at some point. It's time-consuming, but there's a lot to learn from other writers who are also learning. The patterns (twelve stories about whales in this batch?) are also interesting.”

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Author:Mary J. Miller

“The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen.”

People Millions Land Lucky Magazines Reviews Funny Things Website Publication Bad Reviews

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.”

Thinking Use Easy Opinion Directors Caught Magazines Caught Up Easy To Get

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.”

Stills Winning Wish Patient Magazines Urges Prize Frantic

Author:Denise Duhamel

“On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.”

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Author:Mara Liasson

“Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.”

Writing Mean Sometimes Night Class Week Periods Ten Patient University Magazines Be Patient Somewhere Else Assignments Thursday Thursday Night

Author:Pam Houston

“Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.”

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Author:Jamel Shabazz

“A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.”

People Alive Late Magazines Variety Copies Articles Ads Coffins Abe

Author:Audie Cornish

“I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.”

Thinking Stories Reader Habit Letters Magazines Comment Sections Time Magazine

Author:Joel Stein

“I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.”

Letters Magazines Posts Sections Blogs

Author:Joel Stein

“We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.”

People Kind Ends Stories Might Running Millions Reader Tradition Magazines Appeals Giants Staying Sophisticated Circulation Armageddon Cockroaches Staying Power

Author:Lorin Stein

“I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we're all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.”

People Thinking Way Writing Stories Form Certain Position Students Regret Mass Magazines Short Story Engagement Day To Day I Regret Anthology Disappearance

Author:Lorin Stein

“For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.”

Wells Asks Needed Magazines Publishing Publish

Author:Lorin Stein

“I have the feeling that the magazine can reach many more people than it reaches and has something to offer that not everyone knows who should know it. That's why we're starting an app, and that's why we do the blog. But editorially, I think it's mainly a matter of keeping your eyes peeled. You just really don't know what's going to come along.”

People Thinking Knows Should Matter Feelings Eye Offers Starting Magazines Blogs Apps

Author:Lorin Stein

“Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.”

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Author:Adrian Tomine

“My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.”

Ideas Ideals Magazines Feminine Dissertation Ideal Woman

Author:Lauren Mayberry

“It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand.”

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Author:Kevin Keck

“Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.”

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Author:Riccardo Tisci

“When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Mean Book Ends Attention Directors Magazines

Author:Chris Baio

“There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.”

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Author:Eric Lange

“We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.”

“This is so lame to say in a magazine, but I just grabbed some pink wallpaper. I find it to be a very relaxing color.”

Color Magazines Lame

Author:Paul Dano

“Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.”

Thinking Knows Want Wells Persons Sometimes Feelings Hurt Fans Who I Am Magazines Gossip It Hurts Hurt My Feelings

Author:Paris Hilton

“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.”

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