James Wolcott Quotes

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

James Wolcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don't. Once again, that's the league that we're in. That's not the league that used to be.

Jimmy Butler

YouPlayWantPersonalTakeDefense

Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better.

Jerry Lewis

LoveMorningLove IsBetterYouUp

There's always hope, and there's always despair.

Andrea Riseborough

HopeAlwaysDespair

I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young'un.

Maxine Peake

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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Maurice Blanchot

MusicPeoplePaintingProudLovers

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

Robert Gottlieb

ChangeSuccessMindWorldSaying

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

LifeManGayPresentationLivedJim

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Stephan Pastis

AngryPeopleThinkSurprisePerson

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

Tony Shalhoub

PeopleSameNormalFilmWhoHopes

Playing at the World Cup stage excites me.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

Rupert Grint

ExperienceYouGotCompleteGet

When I started my company in the U.S. I was always told by my mentors, 'If you want to start a tech company, you need a technical co-founder,' because outsourcing just doesn't work. It is too slow, it is too expensive, and the product is going to change a lot.

Cheryl Yeoh

WorkChangeStartSlowYouWant

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