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.
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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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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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Marriage is a religious and state issue.
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He leaned a fraction closer. “My lovers have always been warrior women. Strength intrigues me.” She refused to let him play with her like this, even if her body disagreed. Vehemently. “Do knives intrigue you, too? Because touch me and I will cut you up. I don’t care if you throw me off the nearest balcony.
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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.
