Frank Press Quotes
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Good comedy is ageless.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.
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I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
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There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.
