Frank Capra Quotes

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

Frank Capra

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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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Study
  • Human
  • Behavior

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Party
  • Better
  • Communist

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Eating

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Glasses
  • Sunglasses

• 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

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Time

• 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.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Unknown

• You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Obstacles

• 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.

  

  David Cone
  • Baseball
  • February

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Movie

• It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

  

  James Hogg
  • Stock

• I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moral
  • Assumption

• Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

  

  William Penn
  • Failure
  • Authority
  • Failing

• The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Privacy
  • Delight
  • Best Friend

• If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Attract

• Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

  

  Frank Capra