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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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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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Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that's the main motivation for me.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
