James Wolcott Quotes

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1952

Topics

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Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

Matt Haig

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My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

John Tavener

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I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Simone Biles

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As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

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As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.

Traylor Howard

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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert Bork

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I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.

Mickey Rooney

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I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.

Jordan Peele

TruthPeopleFindKindLegends

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Jorge Ramos

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I love living in New York.

Chelsea Clinton

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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

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The more Mr. Trump traduces the old established lines of decency, the more he affirms his supporters' most shameless ideological instincts.

Bret Stephens

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