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 started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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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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I love Boston.
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It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation.
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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
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Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.
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Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
