Michael Franks Quotes

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

Michael Franks

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• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Starbucks

• When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Find

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Life
  • Night
  • Morning

• I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Business
  • Desire
  • Common

• The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Movies
  • Year
  • Studio

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Dreams

• Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • She
  • Action

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule.

  

  Maria Bello
  • Work
  • Struggle

• I have a son, and my son has autism. There's certain things that I deal with that a lot of people don't deal with.

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • People
  • Son
  • Autism

• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Parents
  • Same
  • Explore

• As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Different
  • Explore

• I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Up
  • Men
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• Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

  

  Michael Franks
  • Explore
  • Whenever
  • Chin