David Frankel Quotes
It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.
Quotes to Explore
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
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Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.
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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
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On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity.
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Less is more. I would notice that when I did my makeup, I was putting on more makeup than they did on me at shoots. A little goes a long way, so I definitely learned how to wear less.
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It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.
