James Wolcott Quotes
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.
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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
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At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
