David L. Wolper Quotes
You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.
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When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
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You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.
