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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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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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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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
