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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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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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The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.
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When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.
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I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.
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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.
