"Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror."

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Source : "Swan Down: James Wolcott's Review". "Opera Chic" blog, December 06, 2010.

James Wolcott

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“Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives.”

Source : "The Anatomy of Courage". Book by Charles Wilson, 1945.
“There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.”
“Talent works, genius creates.”
“Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.”
“You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.”

Source : Greg Palast (2004). “The best democracy money can buy: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons, and high-finance fraudsters”, Plume Books
“Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.”
“To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.”
“I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.”

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