Finn Wittrock Quotes
I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I'm very open-minded.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
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Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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The ideas that America should be a 'melting pot' or that all Americans should identify as American are now unutterable in educated company. Indeed, many college campuses do not have an American flag on their campus because some students regard it as 'offensive' - representing imperialism and capitalism.
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I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
