Frank Oz Quotes
There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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A will finds a way.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
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I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.
