Foster Friess Quotes
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
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It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.
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I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.
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I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.
