James Wolcott Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.
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I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
