Dorothea Benton Frank Quotes

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Dorothea Benton Frank

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• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

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• The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

  

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

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• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

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• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

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• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

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• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  

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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  

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• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  

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• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

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• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

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• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

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• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

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• Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

  

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• We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

  

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• Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.

  

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• I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

  

  Dorothea Benton Frank
  • God
  • Brain
  • Serious