George C. Wolfe Quotes
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.
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I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.
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The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.
