Frank Pierson Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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I think that no woman has to defend her body, and she should just live her truth. It should never be about the number size of her pants, and it should be about what you're doing in the world. What does her brain look like and not her hip size.
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I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
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A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.
