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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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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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
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That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.
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The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
