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" The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. "

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" Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self. "

" In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes. "

" Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. "

" Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations. "

" I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews. "

" In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution. "

" I love the Internet; I'm on it all the time. "

" Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble. "

" Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once. "

" I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. "

" I am too childlike to be immature. "

" The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. "

" It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are. "

" Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups. "

" The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself. "

" Every man is a hero to his alias. "

" Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience. "

" I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses. "

" 'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences. "