Michael Wolf Quotes
While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.
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In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
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Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
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While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.
