David Frum Quotes
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
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They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners - the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful - such a positive thing.
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...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.
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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
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I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.
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If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.
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But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.
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The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
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People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.
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No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change.
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In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
