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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I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
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My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
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My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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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.
