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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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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The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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It means what it says.
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Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
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To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.
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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.
