James Wolcott Quotes
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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Justice is revenge.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
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J Cole went platinum with no features, and I wanna go platinum!
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On the street, I get either 'Are you the Red Viper?' or 'Are you Javier Pena?'
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I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
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The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
