George C. Wolfe Quotes
I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
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Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome everything. Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck.
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I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.
