James Wolk Quotes
There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
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I get depressed at airports.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I am very much a Republican.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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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've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.
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One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.
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It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
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There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
