Franklin Foer Quotes
There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.

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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
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Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.
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I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.
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The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.
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There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.