Frank Pittman Quotes

As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

Frank Pittman

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• You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fear

• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
  • Song
  • Know
  • Puzzle

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Think
  • Television

• My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Acting
  • Actress

• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beautiful
  • Pleasure
  • Once

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Character
  • Like
  • Explore

• At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

  

  Candice Millard
  • America
  • Change
  • Perfect

• Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Teeth

• Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!

  

  Amy Tan
  • Live
  • Mind
  • House

• There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

  

  Anna Held
  • Time

• Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

  

  Van Jones
  • Earth
  • Growing
  • Violence

• A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Everyday

• I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • People
  • Girl
  • Sad

• As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

  

  Frank Pittman
  • Violence
  • Fierce