Frank Langella Quotes
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Life is God's art.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.
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It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
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For Aldo to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi.
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If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.
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The young woman had turned toward him and thrust her pink gloves up in the air in a gesture that, from a man, meant 'Touchdown!' and, from a woman, 'I will hug you now!'
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I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.
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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
