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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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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.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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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.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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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.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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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.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
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Across the board, we need to step it up.
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When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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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.
