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.

Dick Wolf

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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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Day

• I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Know
  • Him
  • Portrait

• Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Good
  • True
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
  • Psychology

• And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

  

  Raekwon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Heart

• 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?

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Time
  • Family
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Home
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • Exposed
  • Exceptions

• 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.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • City
  • Short
  • Insanity

• 'It's basically about having to make a decision whether to do nothing or try to engage with it in some way, knowing that it's flawed. It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite. It's a lot easier to do that than actually do anything else. And yeah, that stresses me out, because I am a hypocrite. As we all are.'

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Decision
  • Hypocrite

• The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Happy
  • Destination

• If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.

  

  Bill McKibben
  • Value

• 'But now you've come too far, and I warn you, woman! I will not have you set foot on this domain. And if you cross my will or dare so much as speak to me again, I will have you driven from Re Albi, and off the Overfell, with the dogs at your heels. Have you understood me?''No,' Tenar said, 'I have never understood men like you.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Dick Wolf