Frank Shorter Quotes
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Don't ask super goofy questions at the premiere of a very serious movie or try to have an in-depth political discussion at the opening of a new fashion boutique.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.
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It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
