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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A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
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I love that feeling. I guess I love escaping my life, really. I love going into another world and feeling for this amount of time that this is it, this is the world I'm going to live in. You feel it more during the rehearsal process.
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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.
