Rob Sheffield Quotes - Page 2

• You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

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  Cute, Girl, Song

  Rob Sheffield (2007). "El amor es una cinta de mezclas: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time", Crown

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• It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

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  Hippie, Oatmeal, Fans

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• Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

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  Dog, Jobs, Hero

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• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

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  America, Twenties, Would Be

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• Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

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  Girl, Sex, Stars

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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

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  Heart, Play, Common Sense

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• It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

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  Doctors, Triangles, Love Triangle

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• It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

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  Song, Play, Band

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• Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.

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  Stars, Boston, Fans

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• Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

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• I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

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  Sound, Rolling, Band

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

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  World, Ridiculous, Superstar

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• Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

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  Want, Clean, Slate

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• 'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

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  Song, Years, Dozen

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• Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.

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  Cute, Girl, Stars

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• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

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  Song, Loneliness, Boys

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• Dios bendiga a Estados Unidos: ¿qué otra civilización le daría a Patrick Dempsey otra oportunidad de reinar como sex symbol, veinte años después de 'Albóndigas III: Trabajo de verano'? Su reinado como el Dr. McDreamy en 'Anatomía de Grey' es la prueba de que no hay nada que nos guste más que dar a los famosos de los ochenta una reconfortante segunda oportunidad en la vida.

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  Summer, Jobs, Sex

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• I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.

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  Conversation, Fourteen, Clash

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.14, Penguin

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

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  Stars, Talking, Office

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• It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

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  Cheer, Sorry, Night

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• Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

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  Pain, Competition, Different

  Rob Sheffield (2007). "El amor es una cinta de mezclas: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time", Crown

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• No sabía lo que era. No tenía nombre.

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  Nouns, Knows

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.160, Crown Archetype

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• I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

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  Voice, Language, Whole

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.156, Crown Archetype

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• Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

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  Stars, Rocks, Burning

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.84, Penguin

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• One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

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  Crazy, Trying, Sound

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