David L. Wolper Quotes

Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.

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• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • House
  • White
  • White House

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Political
  • Religious
  • See

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Important
  • History
  • Proud

• I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Right

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• 'We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knights, sworn enemies of Islam. Inform your people that we are sent by Allah to geld the evil Turk and raise high the people of the Nile.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

  

  David Mamet
  • Different
  • Art

• I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

  

  Kelli White

• There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

  

  Wanda Koop
  • World
  • Artist
  • Assumption

• Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Library