Frank Luntz Quotes
There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Women are sacred.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
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There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.
