Frank A. Clark Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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I don't have those superstitious ticks that people have to have something for the road. I like to have good food on the bus, my own pillow, and onesies. Onesies are a must.
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It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.
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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
