Frank Capra Quotes

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

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• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Eating

• People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Generation

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Government
  • Growth
  • Should

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Say
  • Mood
  • Swings

• Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• A good sign for me, that I'm a good spot mentally, is when I'm super prolific. And I just wake up every day excited to make or replicate music in some way. That's really nice.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

  

  Frank Capra
  • Music