Ford Frick Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
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