Frank Rich Quotes
'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
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I worked in rose fields, and I worked in potato fields. I did some bouncing.
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They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
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Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.
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Jack Ryan made the right decision, ... I know it must have been a difficult one.
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'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
