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The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
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In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John M...
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'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
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What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing...
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On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting f...
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The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film bu...
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Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily toss...
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing ha...
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One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of bl...
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As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach ...
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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and dead...
JAMES WOLCOTT

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norm...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance con...
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed W...
JAMES WOLCOTT

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his tradema...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered throu...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, t...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow hor...
JAMES WOLCOTT

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being...
JAMES WOLCOTT

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in sh...
JAMES WOLCOTT

You're sitting there having breakfast at the St. Regis with Scooter Aspen, buttering each other's to...
JAMES WOLCOTT

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's playth...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century i...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to her...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his...
JAMES WOLCOTT

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '6...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No...
JAMES WOLCOTT

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned...
JAMES WOLCOTT

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the m...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
JAMES WOLCOTT

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads r...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a b...
JAMES WOLCOTT

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no &...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and ...
JAMES WOLCOTT

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programmi...
JAMES WOLCOTT

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
JAMES WOLCOTT

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to...
JAMES WOLCOTT

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs...
JAMES WOLCOTT

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop bei...
JAMES WOLCOTT

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
JAMES WOLCOTT

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the...
JAMES WOLCOTT

We have identified the individuals, and they will be getting a bill.
BEN WOLCOTT

The fire is well and truly out. It could have been so much worse if we did not have the combined eff...
BEN WOLCOTT

Fire conditions are getting worse every day that we have don't rain.
BEN WOLCOTT

This is the most dangerous time of year, and we are way behind for rainfall. We've made our preparat...
BEN WOLCOTT

It's just burning in the swamp. It's burning fuel that's within the fire lines at this time.
BEN WOLCOTT

Conditions will probably get worse. We're still at the front end of wildfire season.
BEN WOLCOTT

These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. O...
BEN WOLCOTT

It's a major problem and especially when the fire danger is high.
BEN WOLCOTT

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about...
WOLCOTT GIBBS

He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were s...
WOLCOTT GIBBS

Where it all will end, knows God.
WOLCOTT GIBBS

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
WOLCOTT GIBBS

He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them
WOLCOTT GIBBS

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar...
WOLCOTT GIBBS

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean s...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very di...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

I feel in every smile a chain.
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN

A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES

I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l...
LEBRON JAMES

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ...
LEBRON JAMES

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w...
LEBRON JAMES

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h...
LEBRON JAMES

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LEBRON JAMES

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
LEBRON JAMES

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LEBRON JAMES

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
LEBRON JAMES

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON

There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ...
JAMES TAYLOR

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LEBRON JAMES

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up...
JAMES ALTUCHER

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes...
JAMES MCBRIDE

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
JAMES MCBRIDE

In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk...
JAMES TURRELL

I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th...
THEO JAMES

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN

Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

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Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

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