George C. Wolfe Quotes
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?
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Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
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I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression, sometimes there's the impulse to say let's deny the difference, as though by wishing away the difference we can then wish away the oppression.
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Without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet Neptune solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
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You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.
