James Franco Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - ...
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
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I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.
