266 Quotes by Sarah Vowell

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

My audience is going to die before I do.

The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.