John Frankenheimer Quotes
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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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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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
