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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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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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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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.
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The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
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If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
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Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
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I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
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My son has made me more politically active when it comes to LGBTQ rights. When he came out, I worried about what the world was going to be like for him.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
