Geoffrey Wolff Quotes
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
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Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do.
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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When we uplift artists who reflect diverse perspectives their stories not only tell us how people view others, but how they view themselves.
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An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
