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 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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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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No one should have to live in fear.
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I'm so grounded, it's sad.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.
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Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.
