Dave Franco Quotes
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.
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Towards the end, there weren't that many people watching 'Glee.' So I don't know how many people would then watch a spinoff. We're off the air for a reason.
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
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My secret is just surrounding myself with people who are a lot funnier than me.
