James Wolcott Quotes

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I want to make some happy music.

Jessica Jung

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I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.

Jessica St. Clair

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My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

Robert Osborne

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Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Stephen Hawking

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I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

St. Vincent

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If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

Michael Shermer

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The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.

Jonathan Miles

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The threat from radical Islamic jihadists is real and needs to be taken seriously.

Doug Ducey

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Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Christopher McQuarrie

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Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Christopher Reeve

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Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.

Allison Tolman

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