George C. Wolfe Quotes

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.

George C. Wolfe

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
  • Mother
  • New York

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Done
  • True
  • Success

• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Why

• I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Healthy

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Time
  • Music
  • Create

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• My personal failures aside, 500 has long supported a diverse community of entrepreneurs including women, minorities, LGTBQ, international, and other overlooked founders.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Long
  • Women
  • Community

• To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • School
  • Now

• Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.

  

  George C. Wolfe
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