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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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.
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There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
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I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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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.
