David L. Wolper Quotes
I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
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The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
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What's great about working with EPIX is that we have unparalleled access to the top movie talent and do exclusive 1:1 sit-down interviews with the actors, sometimes before anyone else does. With 'The Hunger Games,' we had our own studio set up and did 1:1s with Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, etc.
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Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
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I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.
