James Frain Quotes
I've got this thing where I think great shows have great credit sequences. I don't know why that is, exactly.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.
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Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.
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Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.
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We have to stop allowing economics to be used as a trump card. Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.
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I've got this thing where I think great shows have great credit sequences. I don't know why that is, exactly.
