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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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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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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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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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 was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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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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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.
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Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
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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.
