David Frankel Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
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I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.
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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
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When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
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I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
