Quotes About Legacy

Look, I'm going to turn on the TV to watch LeBron. I don't care if he's better than Jordan. He's amazing at what he does. Why does it matter if he's better than MJ or not?

'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.

I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.

Just like I tell my daughters, first impressions are important, so once it's out there, whether it's a picture or a TV show, it's there; it's gonna be out there forever.

But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I've Got a Secret.' I was on that show for ten or eleven years. The older people always remember me from that.

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.

It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State.

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.