Dick Wolf quote: "I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line."

Detective Jeremy Fisk of the NYPD Intelligence Division hated upstate New York. Hated the whole idea...
DICK WOLF

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
DICK WOLF

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, ...
DICK WOLF

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show ...
DICK WOLF

I'm immensely saddened by the passing of not only a friend and colleague, but a legendary figure of ...
DICK WOLF

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once t...
DICK WOLF

I was incredibly upset, disappointed, dismayed, any other adjectives that you could care to add.
DICK WOLF

We're not going to dwell on something that happened three years ago on another show. We're not going...
DICK WOLF

'Alias' sold [in syndication] for $175,000 an episode; 'Criminal Intent' sold for 1,100 percent more...
DICK WOLF

I don't think the franchise has a wear-out factor. There are gonna be great stories forever. My only...
DICK WOLF

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integra...
DICK WOLF

Conviction
DICK WOLF

She is really appreciated as being very emblematic,
DICK WOLF

We are all saddened by the loss of Gregory Hines, one of the most versatile performers of his genera...
DICK WOLF

Now we're tied with two of the greatest shows of all time,
DICK WOLF

New York City is as much a part of every 'Law & Order' ensemble as the actors.
DICK WOLF

The three ['Law & Order'] shows have turned TNT into the number one network on cable and USA the num...
DICK WOLF

If it bears fruit in France, it's a pump-primer for the rest of the world.
DICK WOLF

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
DICK WOLF

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're de...
DICK WOLF

It's show business. No show, no business.
DICK WOLF

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete messa...
DICK WOLF

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
DICK WOLF

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters...
DICK WOLF

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the loca...
DICK WOLF

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can onl...
DICK WOLF

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
DICK WOLF

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. ...
DICK WOLF

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
DICK WOLF

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that ...
DICK WOLF

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC i...
DICK WOLF

I hardly see myself as a futurist.
DICK WOLF

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
DICK WOLF

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are le...
DICK WOLF

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system ...
DICK WOLF

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

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
DICK WOLF

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series ...
DICK WOLF

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what i...
NAOMI WOLF

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sne...
NAOMI WOLF

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Wa...
NAOMI WOLF

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by ...
NAOMI WOLF

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for wom...
NAOMI WOLF

It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, an...
NAOMI WOLF

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks l...
NAOMI WOLF

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to...
NAOMI WOLF

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives ...
NAOMI WOLF

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and ...
NAOMI WOLF

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual....
NAOMI WOLF

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and m...
NAOMI WOLF

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing u...
NAOMI WOLF

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu...
NAOMI WOLF

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated bet...
NAOMI WOLF

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves fu...
NAOMI WOLF

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening dem...
NAOMI WOLF

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the ...
NAOMI WOLF

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, w...
NAOMI WOLF

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
GARY WOLF

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
GARY WOLF

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f...
GARY WOLF

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
GARY WOLF

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it...
GARY WOLF

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th...
GARY WOLF

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin...
GARY WOLF

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic...
GARY WOLF

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m...
GARY WOLF

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
GARY WOLF

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ...
GARY WOLF

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it...
GARY WOLF

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It ...
MARKUS WOLF

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women bangi...
SCOTT WOLF

Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the po...
HOWLIN' WOLF

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
NAOMI WOLF

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breaku...
FRANK WOLF

They've already paid their debts to society, and then they're hit over the head again.
ADAM WOLF

We're dealing with young people who want to go to school. People who are convicted of a drug offense...
ADAM WOLF

Students are being punished once by the courts, then again by the education system.
ADAM WOLF

This law creates an unfair barrier to education and singles out working-class Americans.
ADAM WOLF

This law creates an unfair and irrational barrier to education and singles out working class America...
ADAM WOLF

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap ...
NAOMI WOLF

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about...
NAOMI WOLF

The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w...
NAOMI WOLF

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be bl...
NAOMI WOLF

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and c...
NAOMI WOLF

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevent...
NAOMI WOLF

We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were...
NAOMI WOLF

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
NAOMI WOLF

Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never exper...
NAOMI WOLF

Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the...
NAOMI WOLF

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
NAOMI WOLF

A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for he...
NAOMI WOLF

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotage...
NAOMI WOLF

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provoke...
NAOMI WOLF

Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalit...
NAOMI WOLF

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled ...
NAOMI WOLF

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
NAOMI WOLF

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain...
NAOMI WOLF

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
NAOMI WOLF

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.
DAVID WOLF

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women bang...
SCOTT WOLF

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing...
SCOTT WOLF

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an ent...
WOLF BLITZER

As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate fo...
FRANK WOLF

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights...
NAOMI WOLF

There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe...
SCOTT WOLF

In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell...
NAOMI WOLF

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology repre...
GARY WOLF

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tab...
NAOMI WOLF

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical th...
NAOMI WOLF

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a ...
NAOMI WOLF

For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'war...
NAOMI WOLF

Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an adm...
FRANK WOLF

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.
HOWLIN' WOLF

In the best relationships, there remain serious pockets of unresolved bitterness.
ANTHONY WOLF

Anything further that you say at this point is going to screw up your best chance at a good outcome.
ANTHONY WOLF

Kids by nature sneak and lie. The wise parent can't rely on just what they're told. There's no quest...
ANTHONY WOLF

All the studies show that parents underestimate their own kid's risk behaviors versus what kids repo...
ANTHONY WOLF

With parents, it's dramatically less so.
ANTHONY WOLF

One of the toughest things parents do is make a rule their kid doesn't like. You'll inevitably feel ...
ANTHONY WOLF

Teens will always have excuses as to why [breaking a rule] wasn't their fault. Some are so skilled t...
ANTHONY WOLF

The challenge for any religion is ... for the kid, it's going to have to be relevant to their lives.
ANTHONY WOLF

There are a lot of other very highly qualified lawyers who have more of a public record than John Ro...
ALLAN WOLF

All of the sudden, the president now has two openings. That's not unique, but it's rare,
ALLAN WOLF

One Supreme Court justice went to law school after he was appointed to bone up on the law,
ALLAN WOLF

Probably one reason you do not have to be a lawyer is that when the Constitution was written, there ...
ALLAN WOLF

None of the property rights that we have is absolute,
ALLAN WOLF

[The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits] unreasonable searches and seizures. ... so...
ALLAN WOLF

Where are these people going to be putting their human waste? Are these people self-sufficient?
ALLAN WOLF

the obligation of the government to protect the public health, safety, morals and general welfare.
ALLAN WOLF

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that i...
GARY WOLF

I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the ch...
NAOMI WOLF

Points are not the point. The point is poetry.
ALLAN WOLF

The points are not the point; the point is poetry.
ALLAN WOLF

There are two kinds of people in America today: those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack an...
FRANK WOLF

Here's what we talked about (after the game). Every game we lost this year, or games where we had bi...
BILL WOLF

We held them to nine points in the first half, so our defense played very well (in the first half).
BILL WOLF

This is very important for us. The girls needed to find out that they can win without Tanya. To actu...
BILL WOLF

We've been down 10 or 12 points before. The girls realize there are four quarters in a game, and you...
BILL WOLF

We are showing improvement. We have a young team, and we're playing some pretty good teams in tourna...
BILL WOLF

Liz was our best hitter. She is a three-year starter, and is very strong. She could hit the ball rea...
BILL WOLF

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad...
NAOMI WOLF

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood ...
GARY WOLF

You are the sun, I try to say, You are the most important. You are the only light that's ever truly ...
SARA WOLF

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions ...
NAOMI WOLF

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and take...
NAOMI WOLF

Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of...
AARON WOLF

We want to do this ourselves in the most comfortable setting we can think of - to be in each moment ...
AARON WOLF

Lindsay thought she might feel vulnerable in the hospital, partly because there is this hospital con...
AARON WOLF

Personal readings in order to be able to experience the reaction of the readers, even if it is only ...
CHRISTA WOLF

It astounds me in a way, and I don't mean that in a patronizing way. Everyone is going to make the...
RANDY WOLF

I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I eve...
MICHAEL WOLF

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they we...
MARKUS WOLF

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and...
NAOMI WOLF

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that reme...
GARY WOLF

This thing scared me at first. It scared me because you are confronting almost like a ghost, ... Som...
CHARLES WOLF

Such an increase would translate into almost one million additional sales, equivalent to a 22 per ce...
CHARLES WOLF

Do you find a debate about Nazism at Auschwitz? Do you find a debate about the North and the South a...
CHARLES WOLF

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unli...
MARKUS WOLF

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American expe...
FRANK WOLF

Dining in the bar or lounge is easy and friendly and spontaneous and lively. What's not to like abou...
CLARK WOLF

That fearlessness of going against anything drew me to the project. Because it's the same type of th...
DAVID WOLF

An American Michelin guide is incredibly exciting and a testimony to the evolution of our dining cul...
CLARK WOLF

Investors are betting on Apple's music story and not the Macintosh story. If they were betting on th...
CHARLIE WOLF

I am anticipating a pretty rough year. I talked to a landowner this morning who is trying to shoot a...
CLAYTON WOLF

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, th...
NAOMI WOLF

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to...
NAOMI WOLF

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ra...
NAOMI WOLF

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured importa...
MARKUS WOLF

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or m...
NAOMI WOLF

We believe we are Y2K compliant; this is just a precaution.
JOHN WOLF

[McNealy has] wasted so much energy on bashing Microsoft, ... It's been a distraction.
CHARLES WOLF

You read a lot about the effort and you don't hear a lot about the children.
TOM WOLF

If it wasn't for the ladies, we wouldn't be here, ... That's like any organization.
TOM WOLF

We went into the hole by a significant amount, ... We're trying to repave the road so to speak.
TOM WOLF

It's unclear who the standard bearer of such a move would be as long as the official opposition and ...
TOM WOLF

There are probably bartenders who know more about the Patriots than I do. But I know Bill. I wouldn'...
RON WOLF

When you want to talk to your best friend and tell them the good things that are happening in your l...
NICK WOLF

Writing is my passion. Writing is my escape from this chaotic world that we all live in.
NICK WOLF

At the end of his Macworld keynote address in January, Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, noted that the compa...
CHARLES WOLF

Now you can have a small taste of beer or wine and a bit of food to go with it without the emotional...
CLARK WOLF

Chuck appreciates things that will last a lifetime.
CLARK WOLF

One of the things that gives me comfort is that these people have restaurants in Las Vegas, Orlando ...
CLARK WOLF

It's one of America's food capitals. New Orleans gave us a sense that there could be a regional Amer...
CLARK WOLF

It's alchemy and chemistry and farming and hard work. Really hard work.
CLARK WOLF

It took a man to help us understand cooking is not a woman's drudgery. It took a man to show us that...
CLARK WOLF

It will be very powerful if it measures restaurants according to dining standards here, and doesn't ...
CLARK WOLF

Matt had a heck of a game. He came out and played not only great on offense, but great on defense al...
JOE WOLF

I remember they were announcing his totals as the game was going on. It was one of those nights wher...
JOE WOLF

The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good....
HOWLIN' WOLF

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a...
NAOMI WOLF

While things are not less competitive, they're no longer getting more competitive.
ANDREW WOLF

The further-processed business ... definitely performed well, and that is important to the company's...
ANDREW WOLF

One day I spent the entire day here and ate breakfast and lunch and had two rounds of teas and had t...
ANDREW WOLF

Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remem...
FRANK WOLF

The difference between the teams is so noticeable that not even Mack Brown should be able to screw t...
SCOTT WOLF

I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

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