John Frankenheimer Quotes
And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.
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And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
