Scott Frank Quotes
I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
-
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
-
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
-
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
-
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
-
I like to discover new things.
-
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
-
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
-
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
-
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
-
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
-
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
-
My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
-
I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
-
I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
-
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
-
At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
-
My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
-
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
-
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.
-
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
-
I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
-
I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
