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Stephen Frears Quotes

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: english
Birth: June 20, 1941

Topics

Good People Growing Up Growing Up

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Jeanette MacDonald

Good Training Voice Think Smoking

It's better to go to one place and stay put and see it than run around a lot of territory and see nothing.

Better Place Go Run Nothing See

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

Song Compromise Want Never Anything

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

Myself Think Better Motivation Look

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

Hope Great Effort Labor Whatever

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Great People Listening Saying Think

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Cleveland Amory

Challenge Support Husband Understand

I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.

Brendan Dooling

Love Live Basketball Brooklyn Play

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Freedom Respect Support Democracy

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

Men Imagination War Cold Thought

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Paul Watzlawick

Result Accuracy Own Event Been Made

SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'

Music Day Cloud Back University

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