Dick Wolf Quotes
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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Keanu Reeves learned a lot, respecting the culture. I was surprised when I first met him. He knew a lot already and he learned a lot. And also he learned Japanese. It's incredible. On the set, switching between the Japanese and English, even for us, is very hard. It's complicated. But the first time Keanu spoke in Japanese it was a very important scene between us, and more than the dialogue's meaning, I was moved. His energy for the film, completely perfect Japanese pronunciation. It was moving, surprising, respecting.
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I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.
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I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight I had seen movies like The Jerk, Animal House, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them and my dad loved them, and we would laugh together, and I would think, 'This is love.' I just wanted to make people feel like that.
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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
