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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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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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.
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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.
