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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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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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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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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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 surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.
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There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.
