Frank Pierson Quotes
It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.
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I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.
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It used to be that we felt that when we went to a theater, a legitimate theater... that we were going to share an experience together. That when we walked away where there would be something to talk about in that movie that had some meaning and relevance in our lives. And I think that we have lost that.
