James Franco Quotes
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.
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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
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I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.
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Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
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Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in the profits and how to get a piece of them. So don't ever confuse this with a war of civilizations.
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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
