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Dick Wolf Quotes

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1946

Topics

Love Business People Chance Fail

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Fool Man Wise Think Wise Man Knows

I always have snack-y foods with me, like nuts and individually wrapped prunes. I don't like getting hungry. When you're hungry, you'll look for foods, and it's never salad; it's always muffins!

Me You Look Salad Never Nuts

If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

Cooking Mind Dinner Know Out Sofa

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

Thinking Loss New Old About

When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

Maureen Johnson

People Me Writing Way Always See

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Dog Pet Person Average Than Nicer

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

Mother Time Best Woman Reach You

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

Appreciation People America Wish You

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Robert Zoellick

Mistakes Key Learn Hide Move On Sin

Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such a powerful man.

Man Attention You Powerful Know Pay

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc.

Woman Black Media Never She Seen

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Leadership Failure Fishing People Me

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