David L. Wolper Quotes

My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'

David L. Wolper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1928 - August 10, 2010

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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

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It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Steve Jobs

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The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.

Tracy Morgan

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I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

Robert Ben Garant

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Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

Robin Morgan

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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

Mike Wallace

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I like to do films that celebrate life.

Louie Schwartzberg

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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Jay Leno

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My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.

Conrad Sewell

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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

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I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

Antony Beevor

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