Dick Wolf Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.
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Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh when people laugh, and when people cry, I laugh.
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For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
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The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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