George C. Wolfe Quotes
To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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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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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
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A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
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To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.
