Wrabel (Stephen Wrabel) Quotes
I feel pretty good about the balance of being an artist and songwriter, now that I have my album in the works.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I always root for the defense.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
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I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
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When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
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Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
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A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.
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We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
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Don't throw a baby at anything - even a burglar.
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I feel pretty good about the balance of being an artist and songwriter, now that I have my album in the works.
