Mark Frauenfelder Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
-
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-
As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
-
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
-
I grew up on films.
-
When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
-
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
-
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
-
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
-
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
-
I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
-
I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
-
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
I don't care about how much other actors get.
-
Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
-
I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
-
I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
-
I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
-
My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.
-
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
-
Everyone's crazy except you and me.
