Jonathan Franklin Quotes
I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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I hate celebrities.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.
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The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.
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We need to not do those types of things. When you've got your best hitter at the plate, and you're struggling to score some runs, we need him swinging the bat.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.
