David Paradine Frost Quotes
If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I am not honest.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.
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I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.
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They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.
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If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
