Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
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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.
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I am too childlike to be immature.
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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.
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'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
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Every man is a hero to his alias.
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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.