Gary K. Wolf Quotes
Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.
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I've played some great ladies. Mame. Agnes Gooch in 'Mame,' when I started out in the '60s... it's a beautiful role.
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Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them.
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Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
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I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.
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Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.
