Bob Wickman Quotes
I don't know about the people who didn't understand what Shapiro was doing back then, but they should understand now. This is a very good team. The sky is the limit with this group.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I don't know about the people who didn't understand what Shapiro was doing back then, but they should understand now. This is a very good team. The sky is the limit with this group.
