James Wolk Quotes
I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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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.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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I'm very lucky.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.
