Wesley Strick Quotes

I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.

Wesley Strick

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• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

  

  Larry David
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• If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.

  

  Aloe Blacc
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• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
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• That's my responsibility. Obviously we wanted to be much more productive than what we were in the playoffs. We always each year try and look real hard at everything, and that'll be one of the things we look real hard at is, offensively, how can we do a better job.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Real
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• I had tried my best to bring in representatives of the Indian community, but fear for the safety of their families has been a real inhibiting factor.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Real
  • Fear
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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • World
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Film
  • Rules
  • Forces

• What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Peace
  • Israel
  • Alternatives

• We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Long
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  • Commit

• My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Dark

• I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant to my work on Mercy Street is that this illness is timeless. We didn't have a diagnosis for PTSD in the Civil War like we do today, but those men and women definitely suffered from similar psychological wounds as our men and women in uniform do today.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Issues
  • Deal
  • Civil War

• Only fighting each other could have brought that much effort out, at a time in their careers when fighters, given all the punches that had landed on them, generally don't want to go that far.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Effort

• In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Career
  • Responsibility

• I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.

  

  Wesley Strick
  • Careers
  • Appreciated
  • Earthquakes