George C. Wolfe Quotes
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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‘Stinko, is he?’'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.’
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In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.
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Belief is a powerful thing.
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
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People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
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I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter.
