Alex Wolff Quotes
I like L.A., I really do, but I'm really a New Yorker. In New York, there's a feeling that you're not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you're not.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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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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I like to do Pilates.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a cult hit that after that, I just started getting offers for horror. I think I got a little bit pigeonholed in it right off of 'May' because there was just such a large response to that film.
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I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.
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As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.
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I like L.A., I really do, but I'm really a New Yorker. In New York, there's a feeling that you're not praised or treated too preciously. No one ever feels too important because someone on the subway will reassure you that you're not.
