Walter Wager Quotes
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
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I work out every day. I still feel fit and energetic. In a way, I'm healthier now that I'm pregnant.
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I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.
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There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.
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The school system should be used purely for academia and not for social experiments.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
