David L. Wolper Quotes
I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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It could be anybody abusing drugs. This seminar brought to light all the other testing kits available to the Sheriff's Department.
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I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'
