James Wolcott Quotes

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

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• As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Slow

• I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Reading

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Parents
  • My Life

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Love
  • Team
  • Change

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  

  Karen O
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • Bullying

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Wish

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• Hope is paltry food for living.

  

  John McAfee
  • Hope
  • Food

• It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Mean
  • Sound
  • Use

• You can still function as a living ruin.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stills
  • Function
  • Ruins

• I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over the course of 22 episodes, we were able to tell the stories of these people. We had a beginning and middle and end, and as we went on, you changed every week.

  

  James Purefoy
  • People
  • Beginning

• After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.

  

  Adam Rex
  • Good
  • Work
  • Book

• With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Black
  • Scary