James Wolpert Quotes
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.
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I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.
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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
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My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.
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... Satan is made interesting. This has been the charge of a thousand orthodox and even heterodox writers against Milton.
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past - which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour - and that day is Judgement Day.
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Desperate courage makes One a majority.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.
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My all time favourite films - one is 'Mary Poppins,' and the other one is 'Pakeezah.' 'Pakeezah' was an Indian film. The beauty of 'Pakeezah' was that it had a soundtrack which was pure poetry.
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I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
