Dennis Wolfberg Quotes
My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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I owe everything to France.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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He put his hand over mine, the one with the dead cigarette crumbled in it, and gave me a wonderful smile. 'Easy, child, easy. I’m only teasing you. Don’t think I disapprove for Christ’s sake. Live it up, I say. Don’t say no to life, Gorce, you’re only young once.' We were on last name terms, Keevil and I.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
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The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.
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I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.
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Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.
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There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves are good. I try and embrace all those things. I try and embrace the times where I'm not sure of myself or I'm like, 'Is this going to work? Is this going to land?'
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
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In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.
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My family lives a pretty normal life.
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My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
