Frank Norris Quotes
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
