James Wolcott Quotes

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

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• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Life
  • Home
  • Texas

• As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Myself

• Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Find
  • Prince
  • Him

• For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.

  

  Xenophon
  • Good
  • Believe
  • May

• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • You
  • Someone
  • Again

• Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Growth

• I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Injuries

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Baby
  • Forget
  • Rap

• I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Really
  • Journal

• To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Modern

• It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
  • Violence
  • Dance

• I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Character

• Cartooning is an honorable thing.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz

• Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Women
  • Children
  • True

• My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.

  

  Carolyn Rodgers
  • Mother
  • Proud
  • Religion

• Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Men
  • Different
  • Writing

• Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

  

  James Wolcott