Michael Frayn Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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I love improvising.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
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I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
