David Frankel Quotes
My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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I think I do deserve more than 11 carries. I think I really do.
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My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.
