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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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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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 think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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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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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
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The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.
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I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
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I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.
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Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.
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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.
