Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make.
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
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Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.
