Frank Oz Quotes
I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It's much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.
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I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.
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I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.
