Francine Prose Quotes
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
-
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
-
Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
-
I am healthy and happy.
-
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
-
I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
-
You don't see many Jon Jones's.
-
I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
-
Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
-
The way to resumption is to resume.
-
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
-
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
-
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
-
The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
-
A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
-
There is no original truth, only original error.
-
I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
-
Many support what I am doing.
-
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
-
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
-
It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor.
-
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
