Alex Wolff Quotes
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.
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Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.
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What can I say? I'm a complicated guy.
