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James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over…
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I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner.…
— Chris Hemsworth
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Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up…
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It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you…
— Michael Symon
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.…
— Malcolm X
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As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain. Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell…
— Conan O'Brien
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
— Flavor Flav
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We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted…
— Victoria Moran
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I'm just looking for a little mystery in life... like things you can't explain. Like, you go to Mexico, they tell you…
— Ted Alexandro
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
— Barry Levinson
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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
— Ellen Barkin
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