Frank Press Quotes
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
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People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
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I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
