Frankie J. Alvarez Quotes
My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
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Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.
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My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
