Lois Frankel Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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I love anything to do with history.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.
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I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.
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Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.
