Franklin Foer Quotes
If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour.
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Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.
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You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.
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My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
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I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.
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If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.
