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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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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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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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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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.
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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
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We either live with intention or exist by default.
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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?
