Charles Frohman Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.
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They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
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Cain has built a city. For God's Eden he substitutes his own, for the goal given to his life by God, he substitutes a goal chosen by himself.
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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
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We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.
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Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
