David Wroblewski Quotes
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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There's no regrets for me.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
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What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.
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What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.
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I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.
