Story Musgrave (Franklin Story Musgrave) Quotes
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
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If you can measure your height from head to heaven, he is taller than you.
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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
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Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you're having.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
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I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice.
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And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
