Frank Capra Quotes
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.
Quotes to Explore
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.
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I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
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There'll be the same old faces,in the same old places,where my youth was well misspent,but I toe the line and move in time,to a town called no regrets.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.
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However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
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It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
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Unfortunately, considering that we Latinos are really big for movie companies when they have blockbuster releases or new cable shows, when it comes to the dynamic of supporting our own product, it leaves much to be desired.
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History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process.
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It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
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Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn't working - it's horrible, and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect.
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Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.
