James Wolcott Quotes

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

Joe R. Lansdale

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After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.

Jill Stein

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In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.

Robert Silverberg

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I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Sid Bernstein

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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Robert Fitzgerald

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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Robert Frost

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There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Michael Moore

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I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.

Jay IDK

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I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

Debra Messing

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The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.

Drew Carey

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You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Denis Leary

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