Frances Beinecke Quotes
The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
