David L. Wolper Quotes
I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Very few women get asked to be in the swimsuit issue, and I'm really proud to be one of so many beautiful and empowering women.
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People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
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As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.
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I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
