George C. Wolfe Quotes
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
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I'm not great at talking about myself.
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I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.
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I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
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The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.
