Bethenny Frankel Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
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No man knows what he can do until he tries.
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I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
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Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.
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Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.
