Frank Waters Quotes
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.
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Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.
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Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy.
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
