James Franco Quotes
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
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The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
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I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
