Franklin Foer Quotes
The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.

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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Women are sacred.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
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I think 'The Americans' is exceptional on every level.
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I'm an emotional person.
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The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.