Frank Rich Quotes
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
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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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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
