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James Wolcott Quotes

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Someone Popcorn More Years Turn May

When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection - why is that? Maybe you've met before? Maybe you've met in another life? Anything's possible.

Jim Sturgess

Life You Connection Meet Possible

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

Jessica Hahn

I Am People Judge Some People Just

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Think Giving Privilege Duty

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

John Dalberg-Acton

Justice Nothing Bear Secret Safe

I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.

Meghan Daum

Work Me Guilt You Page Asking

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

Michael Gurian

Work Think Brains Differently Female

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Tom Waits

Music Curious Generation My Own Own

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Mary Stewart

Best Think Feel You Know Way

I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state, the fight for freedom comes from the accumulative efforts of the people; without such efforts, very little will happen.

Liu Xiaobo

Freedom Fight People Free Think

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Jose Bergamin

Woman Animal Say Intelligent Clearly

I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.

Jon Ossoff

Focus Shy Try Away Labels Issues

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott

School Child Only Public School Who