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And it’s true: I really did.” — Esther Williams", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=68099", "published_at": "2026-08-08T12:00:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-5598-7165-8ac0-9832dd2dfe66", "title": "On This Day: August 7, 1934: “It must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.”", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=57165", "published_at": "2026-08-07T12:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-5598-7165-8ac0-9832de0309e4", "title": "“These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.” — Robert Mitchum", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=39546", "published_at": "2026-08-06T12:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-5598-7165-8ac0-9832decaddcc", "title": "“I wrote as much as seventy lines at one time, and used to go shouting them about the fields after dark.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=9541", "published_at": "2026-08-06T12:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-5598-7165-8ac0-9832df7c82cb", "title": "Podcast: Jen Johans and I discuss Dana Andrews", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205919", "published_at": "2026-08-05T14:23:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-5598-7165-8ac0-9832e03576d1", "title": "“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=39450", "published_at": "2026-08-04T12:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-5598-7165-8ac0-9832e124855e", "title": "“There is one Metallica. 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We get these dark periods.” — William Powell", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=196579", "published_at": "2026-07-29T12:00:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-97f7-7104-9cd8-c1011869fb62", "title": "“I do not write for the public.” — poet Gerard Manley Hopkins", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=150973", "published_at": "2026-07-28T12:30:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-97f7-7104-9cd8-c10119681ca1", "title": "On This Day, 1957: Jerry Lee Lewis Kicks the Stool Back", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=104509", "published_at": "2026-07-28T12:00:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-97f7-7104-9cd8-c1011a041a67", "title": "Substack: My first press badge", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205890", "published_at": "2026-07-27T17:26:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-97f7-7104-9cd8-c1011a97f701", "title": "“I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.” — Michael Longley", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=151054", "published_at": "2026-07-27T12:00:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-97f7-7104-9cd8-c1011aa5eac3", "title": "Dynamic Duo #49", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=205881", "published_at": "2026-07-25T15:21:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf6-97f7-7104-9cd8-c1011b26b198", "title": "“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” — Edward Hopper", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=3402", "published_at": "2026-07-22T12:00:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-28ec-70f8-bfd7-a07c8961228b", "title": "Happy Birthday, Edward Herrmann", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=143971", "published_at": "2026-07-21T13:00:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-28ec-70f8-bfd7-a07c89d82f80", "title": "“The rhythm is jazz.” — Hart Crane", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=10025", "published_at": "2026-07-21T12:30:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-28ec-70f8-bfd7-a07c8a7a74f0", "title": "“When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. 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When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” — Dorothy Thompson", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=158922", "published_at": "2026-07-09T12:00:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-d74e-7143-b71e-41941dd18961", "title": "“Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.” — Janet Malcolm", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=176103", "published_at": "2026-07-08T12:00:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-d74e-7143-b71e-41941eccfcb3", "title": "“I’m one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.” — Shelley Duvall", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=192856", "published_at": "2026-07-07T12:30:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-d74e-7143-b71e-41941ef894b9", "title": "“There’s a difference between writing about something and living through it. 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It isn’t natural.” — Olivia de Havilland", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=198004", "published_at": "2026-07-01T12:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf7-d74e-7143-b71e-419421de86d0", "title": "“If I don’t feel it, I can’t play it.” — James Cotton", "url": "https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=127376", "published_at": "2026-07-01T12:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cdf8-139a-710b-bc30-3f61e6bdcdfb", "title": "“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. 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2026

Off Campus, episode 2: Commence the one-sided yearningoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
From the archives (2004): Chicago: The Cold Extremeoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
From the archives (2006): A Sea-Level Kind of Girloriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Off Campus: Expect the Unexpectedoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
From the archives (2003): There Was Already Something a Little Off…original ↗
11 Sept 2026
September 11, 2001: In Memory of Michael J. Pascuma, Jr.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Seasonal change shuffleoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
R.I.P. Chicken Shop Dateoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
Dynamic Duo #50original ↗
4 Sept 2026
From the archives (2010): “Go Ask Sheila.”original ↗
2 Sept 2026
Jackson State choir pays tribute to Dollyoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
Everything’s gonna be all right, it’s gonna be okayoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
From the archives (2011): How We Talkedoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
I have watched this 20 timesoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
“You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.” — A.S. Byattoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
“I like to sing to women with meat on their bones and that long green stuff in their pocketbook.” — Wynonie Harrisoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
“I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.” — River Phoenixoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
“Good friends, let’s to the fields.” — Edgar Lee Masters’ epitaphoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
“A ‘smartcracker’ they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy.” — Dorothy Parkeroriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
“The thing I really wanna say is—and really, really mean is that real things last. Any way you look at it. Real things last.” — Dale Hawkinsoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
“If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.” — Kristen Wiigoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
“I never bought a Ricky Nelson record. I bought a James Burton record.” — Keith Richardsoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
“I’m a tough little rebel.” — Linda Manzoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
“I knew [I was a director] from the beginning. It was just a matter of proving it.” — Martha Coolidgeoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
“It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.” — Robert De Nirooriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
“What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?” — James Cameronoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
The last photo and the Stutzoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
“I had never seen anything like him . . . I vowed nothing would stop me from signing this boy for films.” – producer Hal Wallis on Elvis Presleyoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
“There’s no one ‘right’ way of making a science fiction movie; there’s no one way of making any kind of movie, really!” — Nicolas Roegoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
“Yeah, and I’m buddies with Alfred.” — Eminem on Alfred Hitchcockoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2026
“I like myself poems that are gentle rather than arrogant intellectually. Where language fades into cries or whispers.” — Medbh McGuckianoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2026
“One day I hope I can write happier poems, but most of the things I think about aren’t very cheerful.” — poet Philip Larkinoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
“I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it’s true: I really did.” — Esther Williamsoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
On This Day: August 7, 1934: “It must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.”original ↗
7 Aug 2026
“These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.” — Robert Mitchumoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
“I wrote as much as seventy lines at one time, and used to go shouting them about the fields after dark.” — Alfred, Lord Tennysonoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2026
Podcast: Jen Johans and I discuss Dana Andrewsoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelleyoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
“There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it’s called Metallica.” — James Hetfieldoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
“The trouble with Hollywood is everybody is crazy for money.” — Ann Dvorakoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2026
“He who has never felt, momentarily, what madness is has but a mouthful of brains.” — Herman Melvilleoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
“I’ve never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.” — Richard Linklateroriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
Happy Birthday, Emily Brontë: “a solitude-loving raven, no gentle dove”original ↗
30 Jul 2026
“There are no ‘old’ movies really – only movies you have already seen and ones you haven’t.” — Peter Bogdanovichoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
“I am happy – as happy as anyone can be who believes that life isn’t quite to be trusted.” — Clara Boworiginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
“People don’t know it, but I’m primarily Irish. We get these dark periods.” — William Powelloriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
“I do not write for the public.” — poet Gerard Manley Hopkinsoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
On This Day, 1957: Jerry Lee Lewis Kicks the Stool Backoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
Substack: My first press badgeoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
“I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.” — Michael Longleyoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
Dynamic Duo #49original ↗
25 Jul 2026
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” — Edward Hopperoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Happy Birthday, Edward Herrmannoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
“The rhythm is jazz.” — Hart Craneoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
“When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes, and that is my idea.” — Ernest Hemingwayoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
July 20, 1969: Tranquilityoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
“The reality is you don’t arrive, you don’t have a crone ceremony and suddenly get wisdom.” — Olympia Dukakisoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2026
R.I.P. Jennifer Finchoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
“I think something once broken and put back together is even stronger.” — Jared Padaleckioriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
“Didacticism is the death of art.” — poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelsonoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
“Free Enterprise. The American Dream. Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas. Do it now. Pure Gonzo journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompsonoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
“Why can’t people take me as a regular singer without making a bogeyman out of me?” — Screamin’ Jay Hawkinsoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
“I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don’t-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.” — James Cagneyoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2026
“I’m not a yesterday’s woman. I’m a tomorrow’s woman.” — Barbara Stanwyckoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
“I’m not saying I’m trying to create some revolutionary style, but each film has its own language – the movie tells you how it wants to be told.” — Apichatpong Weerasethakuloriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
“Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.” — Walter Benjaminoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.” — Robert Conquestoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
“Reality is diabolical.” — Ingmar Bergmanoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
“He’s one of those actors who knows that his face IS the story.” – Sam Shepard on Harry Dean Stantonoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
“I think there is a little of Beckett in everything I have done.” — Monte Hellmanoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2026
“Nothing can prevent me from making films.” — Jafar Panahioriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
Happy Birthday, Thomas Mitchelloriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
Happy Birthday, Bruce McGilloriginal ↗
11 Jul 2026
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” — Dorothy Thompsonoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
“Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.” — Janet Malcolmoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
“I’m one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.” — Shelley Duvalloriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
“There’s a difference between writing about something and living through it. I did both.” — poet/novelist Margaret Walkeroriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
“I believe what Camus says. When the curtain rings down, your job is done.” — Warren Oatesoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2026
Physical Media Booklet Essay podcast intervieworiginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
“My voice isn’t an instrument I can just hang up on a hook.” — Audra McDonaldoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
“You can’t be on top all the time. It isn’t natural.” — Olivia de Havillandoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
“If I don’t feel it, I can’t play it.” — James Cottonoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.” — Lena Horneoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
“But man has always succeeded in rising again.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéryoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
June 28, 1914: “But if ever a man went anywhere of his own free will, Franz Ferdinand went to Sarajevo.”original ↗
28 Jun 2026
“I know why the caged bird sings, ah me…” — poet Paul Laurence Dunbaroriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
“[Poetry is] a way of trying to come to peace with the world.” — poet Lucille Cliftonoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
“The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.” — Paul Thomas Andersonoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
A Personal Memory: or: What Dog Day Afternoon Means to Meoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
Happy Birthday, Hediyeh Tehranioriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
“All I actually wanted was for my work to be useful.”–Claudius Afolabi Siffreoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts.” — George Orwelloriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
“People are always asking me if I thought Elvis was a handsome man and my answer is ‘I am not blind you know’!” — Millie Kirkhamoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2026
Physical Media Booklet Essay: The Podcastoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
“And the role of the fatal chorus / I agree to take on” — Anna Akhmatovaoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
“The energy doesn’t end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.” — Bob Fosseoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
“There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.” — Kris Kristoffersonoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
“You don’t want to see ‘plots’. You want to see stories develop.” — Billy Wilderoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
“Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.” — Abbas Kiarostamioriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
For Father’s Day:original ↗
21 Jun 2026
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