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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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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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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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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Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
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Nearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is shifting, thanks to mobile devices and the walled gardens they erect. The new landscape of the web is far more complicated, and new products must emerge.
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It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien' for me to autograph. And usually, the photos are pretty gory ones.
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If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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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.
