Dick Wolf Quotes
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
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I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
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Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
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I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.
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Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.
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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
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In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
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Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do...
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!
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Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
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I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
