James Wolcott Quotes
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
James Wolcott
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There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
J. Cole
I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.
Neill Blomkamp
I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'
David Eigenberg
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
Lemn Sissay
I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.
Channing Dungey
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
Bobbie Ann Mason
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
James Wolcott
