David L. Wolper Quotes
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
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Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.
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One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.
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My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'
