Frank Richard Stockton Quotes
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.
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You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.
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My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
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Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
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When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.
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Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.
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I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.
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May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
