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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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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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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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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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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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
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In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.
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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.
