Frank Muir Quotes
Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
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No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
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I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.
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We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.
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I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.
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I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
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My son is the voice of 'The Lego Movie''s Duplo alien.
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I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
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The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
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My right hand is a monster.
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I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.
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Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.
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I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.
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A rich man's joke is always funny.
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Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.
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If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.
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Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?
