Frank Jordan Quotes
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.
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You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
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As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?
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I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.
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You are a part of my family if you watch and listen to Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
