"Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The……" — James Wolcott
"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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54 Quotes by James Wolcott
James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site.
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Abbey Quotes
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can…
— Jane Austen
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information…
— Robert Wright
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We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were…
— George Harrison
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In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly
— Allen Leech
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I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth,…
— Jack Whitehall
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I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to…
— Tobias Smollett
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton…
— Karina Longworth
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As…
— Jack Irons
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Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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