David L. Wolper Quotes
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
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One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
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My career is my girlfriend.
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
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Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
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I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
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Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.
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People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.
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We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.
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I don't call four hours a miniseries.
