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Life is all about seating and lighting.
Everything I love about America is fragile.
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.
Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.
We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.
Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.
Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else.
You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.
Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.
I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.
I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.
To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.
Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.
I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.
There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.
I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.
Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.
I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.
I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.
It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.