John Frankenheimer Quotes
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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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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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I get bored easily.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.
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By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
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I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.
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I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
