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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
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I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.
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If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.
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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.
