Frances Farmer Quotes
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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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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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Competing in London would be a dream come true.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
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I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
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I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
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Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.
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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
