Frances Farmer Quotes
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Any fool can make a ruleAnd every fool will mind it.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
