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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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 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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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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I shave without using shaving cream.
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What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.
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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.
