Franklin Foer Quotes
Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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My best friend is my husband.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
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In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.
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If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.
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Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.
