Frank Sinatra Quotes
I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
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I like routine.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
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More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.
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I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.
