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.
Quotes to Explore
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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.
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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.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
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Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.
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I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly at it, producing more work than I do. I do, what, six or eight covers a year, maybe, and a bunch of illustrations as well, but how many do you create a year? I'm in awe of that, and I think the term implies being at it every day or at least weekly.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.
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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.
