James Wolcott Quotes

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.

Joe Nichols

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Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Jim Brown

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Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

John Howard

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As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Michael J. Fox

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Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Stephen Kinzer

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Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Michael Shermer

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One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

Donald Miller

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I've been drawn to sports stories that have an emotional component to it. I'm happy to get a chance to tell a few.

Chris Connelly

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Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

Bob Mayer

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Bodhidharma

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Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

Alison Moyet

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What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy with its own value creation, not unlike the Web's own economy. Welcome to the cryptoconomy.

William Mougayar

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