Frank Oz Quotes
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I don't like controversy.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
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I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
