Gerry Francis Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Radio is for driving.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.
