Dick Wolf Quotes
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.
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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
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I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
