Michael Frayn Quotes
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.Michael Frayn
Quotes to Explore
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo -
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler -
I've got nothing very original to say myself.
A. N. Wilson -
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
Randall Kennedy
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
Samuel E. Morison -
I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
Olivier Martinez -
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
Indira Gandhi -
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
Laura Wade -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
Tatiana Maslany
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
Harold Prince -
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
Abby Wambach -
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
J. J. Abrams -
Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
Rachel Lambert Mellon -
If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
Ingmar Bergman
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
Yigal Azrouël -
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
Jackie Walorski -
The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
Etty Hillesum -
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
Michael Frayn