Frank Jordan Quotes
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.
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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
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I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
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I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.
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