David L. Wolper Quotes

Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  

  Oliver St. John
  • Queen
  • Flow
  • Bee

• If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Support
  • Innovation

• I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Up
  • Light
  • I Can

• I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Pain
  • Water

• My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Me

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Love
  • House
  • Black

• Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Social
  • Reform
  • Brings

• Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • You
  • Internet

• I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Day

• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Day

• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Great
  • True
  • Perfect

• If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • Life
  • Control

• Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Control