Frank Harris Quotes
'Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country,' Wilde said laughing, 'so education is the curse of the acting classes.'
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I'm not a sun person.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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When real work happens and that's when real art happens.
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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
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It's never too late to get good at something.
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And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
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'Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country,' Wilde said laughing, 'so education is the curse of the acting classes.'
