Upwake Quotes & Sayings

Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept? — Edward Hooker Dewey

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would. — Natasha Tsakos

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. — Charles Spurgeon

Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before. — Richard Masur

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide. — Graham Chapman

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. — Charles Lindbergh

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community. — Joseph C. Rost

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. — Zora Neale Hurston

No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check. — Ann Brashares

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. — Joni Mitchell