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James Wolcott Quotes

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Stars Magic Lips Lady Through Fine

From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.

Potential Enough I Can Go Fame Want

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

Experience Me Night Laugh Remember

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women Door Limits End Goal Things

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Lorraine Toussaint

Work Best Find Outcome Audition

Always follow good counsels.

Good Follow Always

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Performance Think Stop More Sense

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Desire Said True Product Will Fact

I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.

Style I Am New York Book New Three

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

Community Class Always Working Been

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

Work Good Music Looking Country Try

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Good Wise Direction Good Person You

Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.

Ashleigh Murray

Women Competition Identity Celebrate

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