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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• The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Real
  • Think
  • Today

• 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

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• 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

• Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Food
  • Best

• 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

• Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Die

• When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

  

  Jessica Scorpio
  • People
  • Car

• So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • People
  • Character

• Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Conscience
  • Prudence
  • Reproduces

• We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Reality
  • Gender
  • Phenomenon

• 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