Arthur Frommer Quotes
If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
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Funny is an attitude.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that.
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You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
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And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
