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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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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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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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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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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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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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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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.
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When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
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If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
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I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.
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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.
