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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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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The reality is that in a tech environment that is 90 percent to 100 percent male, it's not super-encouraging for females to be successful. It's just a lot of things that contribute to that: things that people do or things that people say that they may not realize have unintended consequences.
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More than seven out of 10 people have found The Landmark Forum to be one of life’s most rewarding experiences. To me, this suggests that The Landmark Forum addresses many of people’s most profound concerns how to improve their personal and professional relationships, how to be a more effective person, how to think productively about their life and goals.
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I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
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I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.