David Frankel Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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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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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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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 hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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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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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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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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I'm totally myself.
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The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.
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Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
