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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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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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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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
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I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
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It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
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I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
