Frank Delaney Quotes
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.
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'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
