Geoffrey Wolff Quotes
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
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We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
