Franklin Foer Quotes
I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I'm evangelical.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.
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Today's numbers are not good news, and I think it's a clear reflection that the attacks of Sept. 11 are still reverberating around our economy. I think it's really important that the U.S. Senate begin to act on the president's economic security package.
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’Who is Imelda?’ I come from a third world country, third class province. And I was orphaned-and look, Imelda made it. If Imelda made it everyone can make it. At this age and stage I feel so good I’m still ready to fly.'
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In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
