Frank Miller Quotes
I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
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It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.
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I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
