James Franco Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
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If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
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A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.
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I have a really close relationship with God. I have more conversations with God, and it's very therapeutic to me. It helps me through a lot of trials and tribulations.
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Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
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A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.
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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
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Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
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Securely attached kids learn the difference between situations they can control and situations where they need help. They learn that they can play an active role when faced with difficult situations. In contrast, children with histories of abuse and neglect learn that their terror, pleading, and crying do not register with their caregiver. Nothing they can do or say stops the beating or brings attention and help. In effect they’re being conditioned to give up when they face challenges later in life.
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I'm not in acting to make money. I reap the benefits from it, but I do it because I love it!
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They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
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Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
